I represent Bernard Lintot. I was a resident of West Florida during the British period. There are records of me in New York City in 1760 as a merchant, dealing in luxury goods. I spent the early 1770s in Branford, Connecticut as property owner with a large family – seven children. Unlike the Loyalist refugees, I came to the newer colony of West Florida for economic reasons, looking for opportunity. I arrived in 1775 and settled on a plantation just east of the Mississippi River. When the American rebel James Willing and his raiders came down the Mississippi in the spring of 1778, they destroyed every British plantation they could find on the way. Most residents fled to New Orleans, but I stayed and welcomed them, so they spared my property. But in the summer, the British sent troops out to fortify the area and found the only place suitable to set up their headquarters was my house! In the fall of 1778, I was elected to represent Manchac in the House of Commons of the provincial General Assembly. In 1780 spent some time living in Pensacola, but then bought a plantation on the Acadian coast. Not seeing any other way to preserve my family and make a living, I swore an oath to the Spanish king.
Sources: 3, 6, 105