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In 1766 Richard Oswald acquired 20,000 acres of land along the Halifax and Tomoka rivers from the British government. On this grant Mount Oswald Plantation was established at this site and produced indigo, rice, timber, molasses, rum, sugar, and oranges. In 1785, after the British exodus from Florida, Mount Oswald was abandoned. Oswald's major contribution to history was his participation in the preliminary peace negotiations at the end of the American Revolution. He signed the preliminary peace treaty for the British, while his American counterparts were Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, John Adams, and Henry Laurens. Oswald has been given both the credit and the blame for negotiating a peace so favorable to the United States.
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