Francisco Collell

Francisco Collell was a Spanish military official and politician who served as interim governor of West Florida between October 1810 and February 1811. He was also sub-lieutenant and Commandant of Galvez Town, Louisiana.

Francisco Collell
7th Governor of West Florida
In office
October 1810 – February 1811
Preceded byFrancisco San Maxent
Succeeded byFrancisco San Maxent
Personal details
BornUnknown
DiedUnknown
ProfessionMilitary and Governor of Florida

Biography

Francisco Collell joined the Spanish Army in his youth and rose to the rank of comandante (commandant).

In 1779, after being promoted to sub-lieutenant and still retaining the title of "Commandant" of Galvez Town, Louisiana, Collell laid out land lots and constructed houses in Galvez Town for the Spanish Canarian settlers (Isleños). He strived conscientiously to guide the poverty-stricken and ill-equipped Isleños, who lacked the basic necessities of clothing and adequate food rations, as they struggled with periodic famines, floods, and epidemics of malaria.[1][2]

Francisco Collell was appointed interim governor of West Florida in October 1810 and remained in that office until February 1811, when he was replaced by Francisco de San Maxent.[3]

Legacy

References
  1. Rob Mann (2012). "Plazas and Power: Canary Islanders at Galveztown, an Eighteenth-Century Spanish Colonial Outpost in Louisiana". Historical Archaeology. 46 (1: Cosmopolitanism and Ethnogenesis, Colonialism and Resistance: Themes in the Historical Archaeology of Florida). Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  2. Louisiana Writers' Project (1941). Louisiana: A Guide to the State – Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration. New York. p. 542. ISBN 0403021693.
  3. Ben Cahoon. U.S. States F-K.
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