Abstract
In April 1767, a young woman named Miss Row married a man who had proposed to her several times over the past year and a half despite the fact that he was not the same man with whom she had engaged in a torrid affair in British East Florida.1 When Miss Row married William Gerard De Brahm, a German who recently had been appointed as Surveyor General of the Southern Colonies, it ended a tumultuous period in her life that had begun when she immigrated to East Florida sometime between late 1764 and early 1766. 2 Within a few months of her arrival, Row had embarked on a secret love affair with Dr. Robert Catherwood, which ended in an abrupt and very public repudiation that almost shattered her reputation and did break her heart.
Recommended Citation
Bauer, Deborah L.
(2010)
"" … In a strange pIace ... ": The Experiences of British Women during the Colonization of East & West Florida,"
Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 89:
No.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol89/iss2/3
