I represent Dianah McDonald Moore. I was a resident of West Florida during the British period. I told my story in my 1786 claim to the Crown for losses in the province after the war. I made the claim in the name of my husband, John Moore, as his widow. I was a native of Wales and in 1767 I went to West Florida where I lived as a spinster for four years. Then I married James McDonald, who died in 1773. After that I married John Moore. He was killed in 1782 by Indian allies of the Spanish while going to his plantation in the country. Throughout my time in West Florida I spent my time keeping house. After the death of my husband, I got passage for my child and I to Jamaica on the schooner Fly but the vessel was wrecked in Cuba and we were stuck there for six months. I managed to get passage to Charleston we were put ashore at St. Augustine. It was 1784, and as British subjects we had no place to go but to the Bahamas. We stayed there until October of the next year, when we were finally able to sail for England. My claim for loss was for three lots in Campbelltown 16 miles from Pensacola, and a small island on the Escambia River.
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