I represent Alexander Ross. I was a resident of West Florida during the British period. I eventually became a planter in the western part of the colony, but I started out in Pensacola. According to my 1778 petition for a grant of land on the Mississippi River, I had arrived in the province in August 1768. My wife was Jane, and we had a child named Mary who was baptized in Pensacola – probably as an infant – on November 2, 1768. I appear in the 1767-68 ledger of Pensacola merchants Caleb and Richard Carpenter as having purchased rum, cheese, and molasses.
Sources: 1, 3, 12, 49, 80