The Cowkeeper: "Perfectly Sober"

In Dec. 1765, The Cowkeeper brought an entourage of his relations to St. Augustine to visit James Grant, the British Governor of East Florida. In Jan. 1766, Grant reported to the Board of Trade, "The Cowkeeper is One of the most intelligent Indians I have met with, 'til his Business was settled he kept perfectly Sober.... We parted upon the best Terms."

James Grant to the Board of Trade, January 13, 1766, PRO: CO (British Public Record Office: Colonial Office) 5/540, quoted in Robert L. Gold, "The East Florida Indians Under Spanish and English Control: 1763-1765," Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 44 (July 1965-April 1966), page 116, note 30.

Saint Taffy?

In the mid-1700s, English colonists in Georgia spoke of a Florida locale named for "St. Taffy." Once a Franciscan mission settlement of the Spanish among the Timucua Indians, Santa Fé (Spanish for "Holy Faith") was a site near the modern city of Gainesville, Florida.

Jerald T. Milanich, The Timucua (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 102-103; Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Zéspedes in East Florida, 1784-1790 (Carol Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1963), 83.