Francisco Pellicer

Last updated October 18, 2019

Francisco Pellicer ( c1747-1826) was an early resident and carpenter of colonial St. Augustine, Florida. He was named a Great Floridian in 2000, and Pellicer Creek is named in his honor.

St. Augustine, Florida City in Florida, United States

St. Augustine is a city in the Southeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement within the borders of the continental United States. It is the second oldest continuously inhabited city of European origin in United States territory after San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Francisco Pellicer was born in the parish of Leon in Menorca around 1747 to Antonio Pellicer and Juana Sintes. At approximately 21, he came to New Smyrna, Florida as a member of Andrew Turnbull's colony. He married Margarita Femanias and they had two children in the colony and two more in St. Augustine. He bought a lot on Saint George Street with Jose Peso de Burgo and they built a duplex house. Pellicer did well as one of a dozen carpenters in the colony and later bought land on present-day Orange Street.^[1]

Menorca or Minorca is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. Its name derives from its size, contrasting it with nearby Majorca.

Andrew Turnbull (colonist) British diplomat

Andrew Turnbull (1718–1792) was a Scottish physician who later served as a British Consul at Smyrna, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Turkey. In 1768, he organized the largest attempt at British colonization in the New World by founding New Smyrna, Florida, named in honor of his wife's birthplace, the ancient Greek city of Smyrna on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Turnbull was married to Maria Gracia Dura Bin, the daughter of a Greek merchant from Smyrna. His colony was located in the province of British East Florida, and encompassed some 101,400 acres (410 km²); it was nearly three times the size of the colony at Jamestown.

Pellicer's first wife died around 1783 and he married Juana Villa who bore him nine children.^[2] He moved with his family to a farm south of St. Augustine on the Matanzas River and died in 1826.^[3]

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His Great Floridian plaque is located at the Pellicer-DeBurgo House (reconstructed) at 53 Saint George Street in St. Augustine, which is used as a British style pub in the Colonial Quarter museum complex.^[4]

The Pellicer-De Burgo House is located at 53 St. George Street in St. Augustine, Florida. It is a reconstruction of two connected houses built during the British Period (1763-1783) of East Florida.

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References

↑ Great Floridians 2000 : Francisco Pellicer CoSA: City of St. Augustine, Florida
↑ "Francisco Pellicer". Ancestry.
↑ "Francisco Pellicer". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
↑ "Eat | Colonial Quarter" . Retrieved 2018-12-11.

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[1] Great Floridians 2000 : Francisco Pellicer CoSA: City of St. Augustine, Florida

[2] "Francisco Pellicer". Ancestry.

[3] "Francisco Pellicer". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 2014-03-28.

[4] "Eat | Colonial Quarter" . Retrieved 2018-12-11.