When the Scottish physician Dr. Andrew Turnbull came with the golden prospect of land in Florida, many Menorcans that accepted were deluded by the stipulation that Dr. Turnbull made in the agreement signed in Mahon the 11 February 1768.   Among other things, it promised that after arriving in Florida, those that wished to work cultivating the land as farmers and tillers would be, at the expense of Senor Turnbull, supported and provided the necessities for living until the land for farming was given to them.  They would be appointed land they themselves judged to be good for cultivation and farming. When the land became profitable, the farmer and tiller would keep enough to feed his family and an amount equal to what he may have made after their arrival in Florida (does this mean an amount equal to the wages for his farming work?) Dr. Turnbull would not be able to discharge nor take out of service any of the contractors, neither can they be separated from his service before the expiration of ten years. Each family head will have one hundred English cuarteras (agrarian measurement of the Balearic island) of land for himself and fifty for each person of his family, male or female, and this will be his property forever, in the form of a royal grant. . . . On the practical side, the results were very different, and from here sprang the rebellion of the emigres to Florida and the abandonment of the miserable living conditions that occurred in New Smyrna, Florida in order to settle in St. Augustine, Florida in 1776-77. All these things the deluded Menorcans, nor the 110 Italians (and others) who accompanied them, many who married the Menorcans, weren’t able to know when they departed under different illusions.