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Probably the more important boundary decision by the British was to declare the St. Mary s River as the northern boundary of the colony. East Florida s first British governor James Grant had argued hard and successfully for the boundary at the St. Mary s instead of the St. Johns River. It seems to me that all of today s counties that lie east of the Suwanee River should have observed the July 21 anniversary, too. They all were once part of St. Johns County. St. Augustine remained the capital city as it had been for 244 years. In 1577 the capital of Spanish Florida had been relocated to St. Augustine from Santa Elena (Beaufort, South Carolina).

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