I represent Alexander Moore. I was a resident of Pensacola during the British period. I arrived in 1763 and purchased Lot 19, on the east side of the fort on Albemarle Street (now the corner of Alcaniz and Zaragoza, about where the Oyster Bay Hotel is). The lot was for my residence, but I built ovens on the property because I had contracts to supply the military with bread. Later, the fort would be expanded and my lot would be cleared. in 1765 I was granted Lot 46, also on Zaragoza near Florida Blanca. I was a merchant as well as a justice of the peace. In 1767, Lt. Governor (and acting Governor) Montfort Browne appointed me to the Council, which both guided the governor and sat as the Upper House for the provincial General Assembly. I sat on this council until 1771. In August 1770, I was granted 400 acres of land about two and a half miles west of what was then the town of Pensacola. My wife’s name was Jane, and we had at least two children: a daughter named Martha and a son named Samuel Phillip. Martha died at 7 months old of flux (severe dysentery) on August 3, 1770. Samuel Phillip was baptized – probably as an infant – on November 16, 1770. He was likely not my only child; when I made a claim to the Crown for property lost in West Florida, I mentioned having a large family. I eventually turned to gaining acreage for agriculture; it was said of me that I “was a successful businessman who retired to become an unsuccessful planter.”
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