Florida Colonial Records

History
In 1565, Spain established the presidio of Saint Augustine, the first permanent European settlement. Saint Augustine was burned by the English in 1586, another major settlement was not established in Florida until 1698. The territory of Florida originally included Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Florida was ceded to the English in 1763 and divided into West and East Florida. Florida was returned to Spain in 1784. Some of West Florida was annexed to the territories of Louisiana and Mississippi in 1812. The remainder of Florida was ceded to the United States in 1819.

Additional Reading

 * The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest by Herbert E. Bolton, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921).
 * Catalog of the Florida State Archives (Tallahassee: Department of State, 1975).
 * Catalog of the P.K. Younge Library of Florida History, 4 Vols., (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1977). For a link to the library website is here.
 * The Spanish Censuses of Pensacola, 1784-1820: Genealogical Guide to Spanish Pensacola by William S. Coker and Douglas Ingles, (Pensacola: Perdido Bay Press, 1980).
 * British West Florida, 1763-1769 by Cecil Johnson, (New haven: Yale University Press, 1943).
 * The British Development of West Florida, 1763-1769 by Clinton N. Howard, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2015).
 * East Florida as a British Province, 1763-1784 by Charles L. Mowatt, (Berkeley: university of California Press, 1943).
 * New Smyrna, an Eighteenth Century Greek Odyssey by E.P. Panagopoulos, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1967).
 * "The Loyalist Migration from East Florida to the Bahama Islands" by Thelma Peters, Florida Historical Society Quarterly'' 40:226-40.
 * Eighteenth-Century Florida and the Caribbean by Samuel Proctor, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1976).
 * The Italians in Colonial Florida: A Repertory of Italian Families Settled in Florida under the Spanish and British Regimes; with a Brief Historical Outline and an Appendix on the Contemporary Colonial Press by Bruno Roselli, (Miami: n.p., 1940, film 1035661).
 * A Bibliography of West Florida by James Servies, 4 Vols., (Pensacola: John C. Pace Library, 1981-).
 * Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785 by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 2 Vols., (Deland: Florida State Historical Society, 1929).
 * A History of Florida by Charlton Tebeau, (Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1971).
 * The Governorship of Spanish Florida, 1700-1763 by John Jay TePaske, (Durham: Duke university Press, 1964).