Person

Patrick Tonyn

1725–1804 · 18th century

Patrick Tonyn was a British army officer who was governor of the Province of East Florida from 1774 to 1785. During the American Revolutionary War he made the colony a refuge for loyalists and a base for raids into Georgia. He oversaw the British evacuation after the colony was returned to Spain in 1783.

Patrick Tonyn
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Province of East Florida

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