East Florida

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British colony former colony

East Florida was a British colony established in 1763 on the southeastern North American mainland, encompassing much of what is now the state of Florida.

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British colony → former colony →
borderedBy	Atlantic Ocean → Georgia → Gulf of Mexico → West Florida →
capital	St. Augustine →
cededBy	Spain →
cededTo	Spain →
continent	North America →
country	Kingdom of Great Britain →
crownColonyStatus	royal colony →
currency	Pound sterling →
dissolved	1783 →
dissolvedBy	Treaty of Paris (1783) →
economyBasedOn	plantation agriculture →
established	1763 →
establishedBy	Treaty of Paris (1763) →
ethnicGroups	British colonists → Native American peoples → enslaved Africans →
flag	Union Jack →
governor	James Grant → John Moultrie → Patrick Tonyn →
hadFort	Castillo de San Marcos → Fort Matanzas →
hadLegislature	Council and Assembly of East Florida →
includedRegion	Peninsula of Florida → St. Johns River region →
legalSystem	English common law →
locatedIn	southeastern North America →
locatedInPresentDay	Florida →
loyaltyDuringAmericanRevolution	Loyalist →
metropolitanGovernment	British Parliament NERFINISHED →
namedAfter	La Florida →
officialLanguage	English →
partOf	British America →
partOfConflict	American Revolutionary War →
predecessor	Spanish Florida →
produced	indigo → rice → timber →
religion	Protestantism →
successor	Florida Territory → Spanish Florida →
timePeriod	18th century →
usedCalendar	Gregorian calendar →
usedLaborSystem	slavery →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Royal Proclamation of 1763 →	appliesToTerritory
West Florida →	borderedBy
British America →	hasPart