Chapter 1
Their World Separated by Fire
“An alliance was crucial to Daniel’s relatives, John and William Kennard and Daniel’s grandfather Jack. More than 100 years earlier, this Kennard saga began in the old British colonies located north of Spanish Florida prior to the American Revolution.”
Chapter 2
Evolution of Trade in the Area During the Second Spanish Period
“For Indians will attach themselves to and serve them best who supply their necessities.“
“The beacon (or tower) sat atop a two-story limestone outpost that guarded the limestone quarries, the quarrymen quarters and the approach to Fuerte San Marcos de Apalache. This beacon guided ships during the daytime with plumes of smoke and a fire by night.”
Chapter 3
Trade Wars, Treaties, Allegiances Lost
“Creek Indians living along the Wakulla River had access to a variety of merchandise and were well pleased when the Panton, Leslie & Co. partners decided to open a store on the river. The area was, after all, ‘a center of a powerful Indian nation.'”
Chapter 4
Crossing the International Boundary
“In 1786 the gaze of the United States administration swept across the vast Creek lands between the Oconee River in Georgia and the Mississippi River in the west.”
Chapter 5
Nineteenth Century
“Rumors of an unwelcome visitor spread like the wind and carried from Spanish East Florida to West Florida in 1799. Astonished officials in three nations were thrown into a new quandary. Thirty-one miles north of Wakulla Spring in West Florida, there was supposed to be an international boundary, but there was none. If the boundary—the new frontier between the United States and Spanish Florida—had been marked with the customary stone piles, how would that have affected the rumors that were spreading”?
Chapter 6
A Rare Treaty Meeting and a Last Betrayal
“Traveling to and from far-flung treaty meeting locations took many days, mostly on horseback. Sometimes a head chief would walk for a long way due to sores. The Kennards’ cow pens and ranch were ideally situated along ancient paths above the confluence of the western-draining Kinchafoonee Creek with the Flint River. This was half-way between the Gulf of Mexico and the Oconee River’s Fort Wilkinson in present-day Georgia. Some say it took three days from the Flint to reach the Wakulla.”
Chapter 7
The Disruption Is Complete: Wakulla Spring Recedes into History
“Swapping land to forgive debts was not instrumental to the Kennard fortune. The one square mile exclusion from the 1803 and 1804 Hartfield Survey that favored John Forbes along the Wakulla River paled in comparison to the land in Georgia they were able to keep 10 years later.
“The big moment came at the end of the Creek War in 1814 when the Kennard settlement in Georgia escaped inclusion in the Treaty of Fort Jackson. This exclusion from the 22 million acres the Creeks in Alabama and South Georgia were forced to surrender to the United States also hindered the immediate westward expansion toward the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers many years after the United States had acquired Florida.”
Wakulla Betrayal 