August 4 – The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida.
^Smith, Carol Wojtowicz (1996). Benefits of Inestimable Value: History of the Mercantile Beneficial Association. Mercantile Beneficial Association. pp. 8–10.
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