Dr. Andrew Turnbull and The New Smyrna Colony of Florida

<p><strong>This diary-like correspondence brings to life the dreams efforts and trials of Andrew Turnbull and the Smyrna colonists.</strong></p><p>When East Florida was ceded to England by Spain in 1763 Scottish physician Dr. Andrew Turnbull recruited over 1400 Mediterranean colonists to establish the agricultural colony he named Smyrnéa.</p><p>Carita Doggett recounts that not only did the growing conditions prove less than ideal but how seemingly every imaginable calamity befell the colony before it failed in 1777. </p><p><strong>This edition of Dr. Andrew Turnbull and The New Smyrna Colony of Florida includes dozens of letters between Andrew Turnbull and others involved with his Smyrnéa venture. <em>These documents not available to Carita Doggett were discovered in the tower of Ballindalloch Castle in Scotland where they had been archived for centuries.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>