Francisco Collell Explained

Francisco Collell
Order:7th Governor of West Florida
Term Start:October 1810
Term End:February 1811
Predecessor:Francisco San Maxent
Successor:Francisco San Maxent
Birth Date:Unknown
Death Date:Unknown
Profession:Military and Governor of Florida

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.

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

Notes and References

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