The following information was obtained from records at the St.

Augustine Historical Society.

Jose Jorge Acosta


1784 Hassett Census:

Jorge Costa, white, 1 negro slave total 2




Acosta or Costa geneological file: photostat of birth of Maria

Narcisa Acosta.
Tuesday. October 30, 1797, baptised by Father Miguel O'Reilly in

Parish church of St. Augustine. Born October 28, legitimate dau-
ghter of Jorge Acosta, native of the Isle of Corsica, son of

Domingo and Maria Bros, and of his wife Margarita Villalonga, native

of this province, daughter of Juan and Marianna Cardona....Sponsors,

Juan Villalonga and Marianna Cardona, native of this city.

SOURCE: CPR baptismal records, page 190, entry 404.




"New Smyrna, An 18th Century Greek OdysseyY by Panagopoulous.

University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1966, page 180t-
"Ten years later, he ZDemetrios Fudulakis native of the Island of

Candia in the Lavante7 with his stepson, Yorge Costa, bought a
schooner. By that time Fudulakis was a man of property".



Hassett Census 1784, No. 72
Demetrio Tudelache, Mariner, of Candia, 40ryears

Maria Braus, his wife, of Santurin, of 50 years

Miguel Costa, son of the said Maria and another husband, of Corica,








Jose Jorge Acosta


of 24 years.

Jorge Costa, son of the said Maria and another husband, of Corsica,

Mariner, of 20 years.

Nicolas, son of the said spouses, of Mosquito. Mariner of 14 years.




Spanish Census 1785

Demetrio Pedulach: native of Island in the Levant, he is of the

Greek Church, he has a wife and three sons /or children, his

occupation Fishermanp and Farmer, he has three acres of land for

which he pays the Tenth to an Englishman, he has a house, his

property, without ground, near the Church of Our Lady of La Leche,

which he inhabits, he has a horse.


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