PASSENGERS FROM THE BALEARIC ISLANDS
 TO FLORIDA IN 1768 (MINORCA AND MAJORCA)

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Researcher & Contributor ? Lucie Servole Myers

 

Intro
Andrew Turnbull, a Scottish-born physician and wealthy member of the East Florida Society in London which was formed in 1766, conceived a plan to bring colonists of Greek, Italian, Minorcan and Turkish origins to Florida in the hopes of cultivating the land. Great Britain had acquired Florida around 1763.

The Turnbull venture: On March 31, 1768, a fleet consisting of the https://best-replica-watches.diggdeluxe.com/
below-mentioned eight ships left Mahon, Minorca with over 1400 passengers. The fleet arrived in Gibraltar on April 3, 1768, then left Gibraltar on April 17, 1768. Of the 1403 passengers who had left Gibraltar, only 1,255 managed to reach the coast of East Florida as 148 of them perished on the high seas. Three children were born at sea: Eulalia Elquina (Alzina); Antonia Arnau; and Benito Buenaventura (unknown parents).

Four of the ships which carried some 700 immigrants, arrived in St. Augustine, Florida on June 26, 1768. The other four vessels had been carried off course by strong currents, but they eventually reached St. Augustine little by little, arriving one after the other, during the month of July, 1768.

 

SOURCES FROM WHICH THE INFORMATION BELOW WAS COLLECTED

Names of immigrants listed below have been spelled in many different ways.

 

LIST OF PASSENGERS NATIVE OF MINORCA
NAME ; ORIGIN

 

LIST OF PASSENGERS NATIVE OF MAJORCA
NAME ; ORIGIN