1665-37 Pre-1915 " "G uau 3-urir'.yCCT — was named Grant's Lake after James
th• Florida. According to the 1976 Bi- Grant, East Florida's first royal governor,
ennial Floridiana Facsimile series re- and most' of the Florida Keys had their
' auction of "The Atlantic Pilot," with in- names anglicized by de Brahm.
uction and index by Louis de Vorsey . While de ' Brahm was in England in
de Brahm had struck up a relationship 1783, the Crown returned Florida to
the Earl of Dartmouth who had huge Spain, from whom it had obtained it in
'holdings in southern Florida and was 1763. At the conclusion of the Revolution,
-ested in developing those lands. de Brahm and his wife returned to
The attempts by de Brahm and Dart- Charleston attempting to reclaim their es-
ith failed. tates which had suffered during the war.
De Brahm's maps of the lower East Ill and aging, the broken de Brahm
,st of Florida are among the best by came to Philadelphia in 1791. There he
early cartographers. He did make spent his final years publishing books on
e mistakes, however, such as placing mystical religious themes. He died in 1799.
'e Florida at what now is the southern • NEXT SATURDAY: Rescue of the
of Miami Beach — which was called Dixie.
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