Zespedes in East Florida, 1784 - 1790.
1989 · Jacksonville
by Tanner, Helen Hornbeck.
Jacksonville: University of North Florida Press, (1989). Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. wrappers), xxix + 253 pp. Near-Fine. From lower cover: As East Florida’s first governor during the Second Spanish Period, Vincente Manual Zespedes y Valasco had to reshape colonial institutions to fit the Spanish mold and to redefine the relationship of his colony to the new United States, the French and English, and the Indians. At the same time he had to cope with myriad internal problems. i this informative and entertaining biographical history, Tanner skillfully interweaves historical narrative with intimate personal details of life in eighteenth-century St. Augustine. (Inventory #: 51678sc)