WHITEHALL, June 11. The King has been
pleased to appoint Patrick Tonyn, Esq; to be Captain General and Governor in
Chief of his Majesty’s province of East Florida, in America, in the room of
James Grant Esq;
The Essex Gazette (Salem, Massachusetts), 17 August 1773
Anglo-Irish aristocrat and British Army officer Patrick Tonyn replaced Scottish laird and British General James Grant as Governor of East Florida. Grant actually left Florida in 1771. Lieutenant-Governor John Moultrie served as acting Governor until Tonyn’s appointment.
The arrival of Governor Tonyn and his family was a disappointment to a prominent clique of planters, several of them bachelors like Grant, who regularly enjoyed the hospitality of Governor Grant and the expert French cooking of Grant’s African slave, Baptiste. Grant also hosted weekly dinners for all the British officers stationed in St. Augustine.
Please check Paul David Nelson, General James Grant: Scottish Soldier and Royal Governor of East Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993) 71-72; Daniel L. Schafer, “‘…not so gay a Town in America as this…:’ St. Augustine, 1763-1784,” in The Oldest City: St. Augustine, Saga of Survival, ed. Jean Parker Waterbury (St. Augustine: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1983), 91-123; Daniel L. Schafer, St. Augustine’s British Years, 1763-1784 (St. Augustine: St. Augustine Historical Society, 2001), 41-48.
The Essex Gazette (Salem, Massachusetts), 17 August 1773
Anglo-Irish aristocrat and British Army officer Patrick Tonyn replaced Scottish laird and British General James Grant as Governor of East Florida. Grant actually left Florida in 1771. Lieutenant-Governor John Moultrie served as acting Governor until Tonyn’s appointment.
The arrival of Governor Tonyn and his family was a disappointment to a prominent clique of planters, several of them bachelors like Grant, who regularly enjoyed the hospitality of Governor Grant and the expert French cooking of Grant’s African slave, Baptiste. Grant also hosted weekly dinners for all the British officers stationed in St. Augustine.
Please check Paul David Nelson, General James Grant: Scottish Soldier and Royal Governor of East Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993) 71-72; Daniel L. Schafer, “‘…not so gay a Town in America as this…:’ St. Augustine, 1763-1784,” in The Oldest City: St. Augustine, Saga of Survival, ed. Jean Parker Waterbury (St. Augustine: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1983), 91-123; Daniel L. Schafer, St. Augustine’s British Years, 1763-1784 (St. Augustine: St. Augustine Historical Society, 2001), 41-48.
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