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3 unusual facts about Uchee Billy


Uchee Billy

After his death his skull was defleshed by the attending physician Frederick Weedon from St. Augustine who kept it as a macabre curio.

Hernandez was led to the site by a Seminole brave, Tomoka John, who had been captured along with Seminole Chief King Phillip two nights earlier at Dunlawton Plantation.

Billy was mistakenly reported to have been killed during a major sweep by United States forces along the St. Johns River in 1836.



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