Leigh Read County was a county in

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proposed to honor General and Legislator

Leigh Read Leigh Read (1809-1841) was a Democratic Party politician in Florida and general in the Second Seminole War. Born in 1809 in Sumner County, Tennessee, Read migrated to Florida and settled in Centerville, Florida in 1831. Read studied in Richard ...

following his assassination. In 1842, the Democrats in the

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passed a bill that would have renamed Mosquito County, which at the time included all of today's

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, and Volusia as well as parts of

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Osceola Osceola (1804 – January 30, 1838, Vsse Yvholv in Muscogee language, Creek, also spelled Asi-yahola), named Billy Powell at birth, was an influential leader of the Seminole people in Florida. His mother was Muscogee, and his great-grandfa ...

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and Brevard Counties, to Leigh Read County. Many claim that the bill passed the Territorial Council, but there are no legislative records of the bill. What happened is unclear, but some claim a clerk withheld the bill, while others claim Whig governor Richard K. Call, who routinely clashed with Read, refused to sign the bill. One historian says Governor Call claims to have signed the bill, "but through some misadventure the law never appeared on the books."

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