The Missing minorcans

It’s one thing to be lost in the dark, unaware of where the Minorcan ancestors rest. But it is an entirely different kind of tragedy—a wound that refuses to heal—when we do know the general area where the Minorcan colonists are buried, yet we remain powerless to stir enough interest, enough urgency, to
uncover their resting place. Their recruitment as indentured servants, and the hardships they endured, have been described in many books and stories. Their strength and resilience allowed their culture to survive, despite a high mortality rate. This issue is of great historical significance. The New Smyrna colony was much larger than the Jamestown colony. “It is the largest importation of white people that was ever brought into America at a time.”
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