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Submitted by Descendant:  Jeannette Marie SAY Roque Leonardy was born 9 October 1741 in Italy.  Roque was baptized as Rocco Peligrino Leonardy.  Sometime after his arrival in the “New World” his name was Anglicized to Roque. During 1768 he set sail, from Mahon, Minorca to St Augustine, Florida as an…

Submitted by Descendant:  Jeannette Marie SAY Ellen Louisa Leonardy was the sixth child and second daughter of Vicente Leonardy and Venancia Andreu, born circa 1861 in Tampa, Florida. On 27 February 1878, Ellen married George Wesley Meares.  Shortly thereafter she and George moved to the recently purchased acreage located on…

Submitted by Descendant:  Jeannette Marie Say HENRY Roque Leonardy arrived as an indentured laborer under Dr. Andrew Turnbull and is considered the founding father of the Leonardy(I)s of Florida. Born on 21 September 1782 in St. Augustine, Bartolome Josef Leonardy was a first-generation child born in the united States and…

Submitted by Descendant:  Nancy Evelyn Strauss WHITTLE Bartolome Josef Leonardi was born 21 September 1782 in St. Augustine, Florida.  He is among the first generation of LEONARDI’s born in Florida. Bartolome is the son of Don Roque Leonardi and his wife Agueda (Agatha) Coll.  They arrived with the Turnbull Colony…

Submitted by Descendants:  Andrew Jason, Jason Ryan, and Ryan Samuel LAW Joseph Elliott Law was born 15 February 1799 in Liberty County, Georgia, and was one of four children born to Thomas Elliott and Sarah Sallens Law.  He received land grants in Hamilton County in 1836, 1839, 1852, and 1855. …

Submitted by Descendant:  Anisca “Nickey” Bronson NEEL Eliza Lanier was born 30 March 1859 in Polk County, the daughter of John Lanier and Margaret Hogan, who were both pioneers of Florida.  Eliza married John James Bronson on 24 December 1874 in Orange, now Osceola County.  To this union were born…

Thomas Jefferson Land Submitted by Descendants:  Charles Edward and Scarlett Estella SCOTT Sumter Land may have been born in South Carolina, but Florida was his home for many years.  He is shown as a signer on an 1831 petition to the United States Congress requesting an arsenal be built near…

Submitted by Descendant:  Maurice “Pat” LaMEE Born in Brest, France, on 8 May 1812, William Lamee went to sea at the age of twelve and arrived on Florida’s east coast in 1835.  He settled in the Mayport area where he was part of the second wave of bar pilots at…

Amanda Cedelle KNIGHT & William Rogers DIXON Submitted by Descendants:  Charles Nicolas, Gunner Julian, Myra Marie, Sharon Baker ADERMAN; Victoria Lynne A Sarah Ann HARRISON der Sarah Ann HARRISON man LANGSTON; Erin Taylor, Steven F., and Suellen Baker PAIT; Payton Lane and Tina Pait PELLITTERI James Henry Knight, son of…