Dr Andrew Turnbull and the New Smyrna colony of Florida . CHAPTER IIITHE UPRISING OF 1768<i) LL seemed peaceful and busy onAugust 8, 1768, two months afterthe last colonist had arrived atNew Smyrna, when Turnbullbrought some planters from theCarolinas down to see the progress his set-tlers had made. The distinguished visi-tors rode over the fields where brush andpine stumps were burning, the fresh-cutoutlines of the farms were just showing andthe great wharfs and wells were be-ing built of coquina. Turnbull showed them. (1) CO. 5/544, pp. 37-42. (This account is based upon Governor Grants r
Dr Andrew Turnbull and the New Smyrna colony of Florida . CHAPTER IIITHE UPRISING OF 1768<i) LL seemed peaceful and busy onAugust 8, 1768, two months afterthe last colonist had arrived atNew Smyrna, when Turnbullbrought some planters from theCarolinas down to see the progress his set-tlers had made. The distinguished visi-tors rode over the fields where brush andpine stumps were burning, the fresh-cutoutlines of the farms were just showing andthe great wharfs and wells were be-ing built of coquina. Turnbull showed them. (1) CO. 5/544, pp. 37-42. (This account is based upon Governor Grants report to Hillsboroughand the lyOrds of Trade of the occurrence). 49 DR. ANDREW TURNBULL the quarries of this curious rock which is com-posed of innumerable tiny shells, held togetherby a natural cement, a rough and durable ma-terial which the Spaniards had used to buildthe fort and sea-wall at St. Augustine. Thecolonists were much awed by the splendidequipment and retinue with which these visi-tors traveled, but the visitors were equallyimpressed by the extent of the undertaking be-fore them. They saw that this was the larg-est number of people which had ever come tothe colonies in one body; that the possibilitiesof the country were at last to be found in agri-culture, instead of myths of gold and silver,and that within his grasp Turnbull held therealization of all the visions of past invadersof this strange land. They declared to theirdelighted host that this colony bade fair tobe the best in all the British provi
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