I represent John Amer (also spelled Amar). I was an ordnance officer and craftsman in West Florida during the British period. I was in Pensacola at least by 1768 as my wife, Susannah, died in Pensacola on September 15. I signed as a member of a group of four men “employed by his Excellency the Governor and Council to Survey the Government House in the Stockaded Fort at Pensacola” on September 28, 1770. I was enumerated by the Spanish as being a householder of Pensacola at the time of the surrender of Pensacola, which was May 10, 1781. My last will and testament was probated under British law in October 1782, and it identifies me as John Amar, “of Pensacola but late of New York City.” This means I was among the Pensacola survivors who were sent to the British stronghold in New York by the Spanish after the surrender. My probate names a “relict,” or survivor, by the name of Sarah Amar.
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