Note:  While The Old Country is based on historical information, it is a story and is not intended to be a reference work. As such, the list below is not a proper bibliographical reference but rather a list of sources used in the development of the story.

Sources

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2. “Travels of William Bartram”, 1928 edition, reprinted by Cosimo Classics, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-61640-269-3

3. “The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony At La Chua and The Determinants Of Economic Expansion In Seventeenth-Century Florida”, by AMY Bushnell

4.  “Travels in Georgia and Florida, 1773-74, A Report to Dr. John Fothergill”, William Bartram, The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Society, 1943

5. “Edward L. Wanton: correspondence, 1797-1832”, From the Collection: Glunt, James David, 1895-1962. George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

6. “Edward M. Wanton and the Settling of Micanopy”, by Frank Marotti, Jr., Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 73: No. 4, Article 6, 1994

7.  “Arredondo grant. 1820-1824 papers”, From the Collection: Glunt, James David, 1895-1962, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

8. The Royal Society archives

9. U.S. Library of Congress Map Collection

10. “Shell Mound Summer Solstice Feasts”, Laboratory of Southeastern Archaeology, University of Florida Link

11.  “Exploring Florida”, Florida Center for Instructional Technology

12.  “Ocali County, Kingdom of the Sun”, by Eloise Robbinson Ott and Louis Hickman Chazal, Third Edition 1986, Marion Publishers

13.  US Census Records

14.  Ancient Records, Alachua County Clerk of the Court, Florida

15.  University of Florida Digital Collections

16.  Florida Memory, State Library and Archives of Florida

17.  Post Office Records, National Archives

18.  Map Collection, Library of Congress

19.  Map Collection, U.S. Geological Survey

20. Maps, Florida Geographic Data Library, University of Florida Geo Plan Center

21.  Land Records, Land Boundary Information System, Florida, Dept. of Environmental Protection

22.  Property Appraiser, Marion County

23.  Property Appraiser, Alachua County

24.  Land Surveys and Grants, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Dept. of the Interior

25.  “The Small Florida Town That Could Have Been a Jewish Utopia”, Brian Zimmerman, Dec 9, 1014, Forward, Jewish Independent

26. Monaco, C.S. “Moses Levy of Florida, Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer”, Louisiana State University Press, 2005

27. Blizin, Jerald. “Moses and Son, Pioneers of Frontier Florida, 2017, ISBN: 1542304210

28. Marotti, Frank. “Edward M. Wanton and the Settling of Micanopy.” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 4, 1995, pp. 456–77, JSTOR.

29. Anderson, Lars. “Paynes Prairie, The Great Savanna, A History and Guide, 2nd Edition, 2010, Pineapple Press, Inc., Sarasota, FL

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32. Journey into Wilderness, An Army Surgeon’s Account of Life in Camp and Field during the Creek and Seminole Wars, 1836-1838, Jacob Rhett Motte, 1953, University Press of Florida

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54. “The First Two Fort Moultries, a Structural History“, Edwin C. Bearss, National Park Service, Division of History, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, June 30, 1968

55. “Seminole Hostilities”, Andrew Jackson, President of the U.S., to the House of Representatives, Jun3 3, 1836

56. “Notices of Florida and the Campaigns”, M.M. Cohen, Burges & Honour, NW, 1836

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61.  “The Territorial Papers of the United States, The Territory of Florida, 1821-1824”, Clarence Edwin Carter, Volume 22, The National Archives, Washington, DC, 1859

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