I represent Arthur Strother. I was a resident of Pensacola during the British period. I was a magistrate and merchant. In 1769 I was elected to represent Campbelltown in the House of Commons for the provincial General Assembly; I was elected in 1778 to represent the Town of Pensacola. For a time I was in partnership with merchant Davis Ross, and then with James Mather of New Orleans. I appear in a listing of inhabitants of the town of Pensacola, February 1780, and in the Spanish listing of householders remaining in the town at the capitulation in May 1781. James Mather and I continued to supply merchandise to Mobile and Pensacola after the Spanish conquest until 1785 when we relinquished trading rights to William Panton. In Adam Chrystie’s 1783 claim to the Crown for losses in West Florida, I was listed as a reference, living in England.
Sources: 5, 7, 66, 6