Probably the part of the paper that relates most to historical facts:
My family is Franco-Spanish. I am twenty five years old. Right now my husband Francois Duchossois runs a large plantation in the St. Augustine region of Florida. He is twenty seven years of age. We have two children, one boy one girl. One’s name is Marc the other’s name is Emily. The year is 1820. We could have chosen to live in the western part of the state but there were certain aspects of the east coast that made it more appealing for my family to live here. My parents knew both Anthony Hutchins and Florida governor Peter Chester. My family was not fond of Anthony Hutchins policies regarding land distribution[1]. His logic behind appropriating land to people made no sense. Some people got really large portions and some people received unfair treatment from him. For example we were told that he, “could be accused of negligence at times and inconsistency on other occasions. Widow Sarah Truly came to Natchez in July 1772, with three brothers, six children and six slaves. She finally received 700 acres in 1776.” They would make an appeal and he would never listen.[2] He is respected by many Floridians but we cannot say that for ourselves. I believe there is a lot of prosperity in this area of Florida. At the same time we like how St. Augustine is a quiet nice town. Given that St. Augustine has a military base we know it is a very safe place to live.[3] We chose St. Augustine versus northwest Florida because we heard bad things about the Pensacola area of Florida.[4] St. Augustine is one of the first official towns in the new world and we feel very proud to call it our residence.
Our neighborhood is very nice and open. There are not really many neighbors given that there are so many plantations. Some of our neighbors just use their homes in St. Augustine as winter residences and spend the summer up north in states like New York and New Hampshire.
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