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Spanish Land Grants
Starting in 1790, Spain offered land grants to encourage settlement to the sparsely populated and vulnerable Florida colony.

H. Lee (Henry Lee IV) to Judge Woodward (Augustus Brevoort Woodward) September 15, 1824

This early territorial letter was found among a batch of 1850s case files from the Florida Supreme Court.

In the letter, Henry Lee IV (1787-1837), son of General Henry Lee (1756–1818) and half-brother of Robert E. Lee, writes to Judge Augustus Brevoort Woodward, judge of Florida’s Middle District superior court, asking Woodward to support and file a claim on Lee’s behalf for land in East Florida.

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