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Near the fork of the branch, where the oldest tree grows, could be something below.
Louis Joseph Francois (Francis II) Richard
Francis Richard and his wife Donna Bianne owned a sugar cane plantation on the Island of Hispaniola. Francis was from Italy and his wife was from St Marc, Santo Domingo (her parents were from France). They were warned of a slave rebellion by their workers, and left the island on Richards's schooner with their four children along with many of his workers. They arrived in Florida during the second Spanish period and settled on the East Bank of the St. Johns River ca. 1795 after a brief stay in Cowford. In all, Richard was granted some 30,000 acres in northeast Florida of which some 16,000 were located in or contiguous to the Arlington area. He got several grants along the east shore of the river from Chaseville Point south to his 600 acre grant in the Clifton area, which he called Strawberry Hill. One of his sons, John William Richard was granted 250 acres in 1803 south of Strawberry Creek and generally bounded on the west by Silversmith Creek and what is now Arlington Road on the east, running south crossing what is now Atlantic Boulevard. I believe his plantation was called Oakwood.
OAI Pages on Francois Richard
- History of the Francois Richard family and Spanish grants in Arlington
- History of Don Francis Richard
- Francis Richard Mill and Mill Pond.
External Links (for help in research)
- Descendants of Jean Francois Richard (take a look at the third generation for the Richard that settled in Arlington).
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