I represent Joseph D. Pallacios. I was one of the first identified Jews to arrive in the British colony of West Florida, sometime between 1763 and 1765. I and a few other Jewish merchants in the province bought property and opened stores. We provided a wide range of goods to the British miltary and to civilian colonists, even trading with other Southern colonies. There were never quite enough of us to form a religious community of any kind; like many settlers we moved to wherever the economy seemed to be growing. In February 1765 I was granted Pensacola town lot No. 29, which was on Gloucester Street (today’s Cevallos Street) near the waterfront.
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