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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M82- 28
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Title, Dates: Livorno engraved illustration, 1763.
Amount: 1 items
Medium Included: engraving
Organization/Arrangement: Unarranged
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Biographical/Historical:     In 1763, Spanish ceded East Florida was to Britain in the Treaty of Paris that ended the French and Indian Wars. At this time, Andrew Turnbull, a Scottish doctor and former British Consul at Smyrna, Greece, was granted approximately 20,000 acres of land about 70 miles south of St. Augustine, Florida, and called it New Smyrna. Turnbull's colony raised cotton, olives, and indigo, and made wine and silk.

    From 1767 to 1768 Turnbull gathered about 1,403 Mediterranean colonists for his projected colony in East Florida, 110 of which were Italians recruited in the port city of Livorno, Italy. The voyage to East Florida was difficult and many died. Still, on June 26, 1768, 1,255 men and women arrived in St. Augustine, which was to date the largest colony of Europeans to arrive in Florida at one time. The eight ships collected provisions and later arrived at New Smyrna.
Summary:     This collection contains an engraving of the Port City of Livorno, Italy, titled in Italian "Vestitvra E. Villaggio Del Floridian," which translates as "Vestitvra, and a Village in Floridian." The engraving depicts a scene of a young man leaving the town of Livorno to join Andrew Turnbull's colony in New Smyrna, Florida.
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General Note: Florida Photographic Collection Number P1982-28
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Subject Access Fields: Turnbull, Andrew, d. 1792
Colonies America.
Imperialism.
East Florida.
Florida History To 1821
New Smyrna Beach (Fla.)
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