Francisco Pellicer ( c1747-1826) was an early resident and

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of colonial

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. He was named a

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in 2000, and Pellicer Creek is named in his honor. Francisco Pellicer was born in the parish of Leon in

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around 1747 to Antonio Pellicer and Juana Sintes. At approximately age 21, he came to

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as a member of Andrew Turnbull's colony. He married Margarita Femanias and they had two children in the colony and two more in St. Augustine. He bought a lot on Saint George Street with Jose Peso de Burgo and they built a duplex house. Pellicer did well as one of a dozen carpenters in the colony and later bought land on present-day Orange Street. Pellicer's first wife died around 1783 and he married Juana Villa who bore him nine children. He moved with his family to a farm south of St. Augustine on the

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and died in 1826. His Great Floridian plaque is located at the Pellicer-DeBurgo House (reconstructed) at 53 Saint George Street in St. Augustine, which is used as a British style pub in the

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museum complex.

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