Pellicer-De Burgo House

According to a Spanish map of 1763, there were two lots at the site of the Pellicer-De Burgo property. The north lot had belonged to Lucas Escovedo and the south lot had belonged to Prudencia Ansures but the two owners left St. Augustine as the British took over the colony after the 1763 Treaty of Paris. At the beginning of St. Augustine's British Period, agent Jesse Fish was put in charge of selling the two lots. He sold them to Francisco Pellicer and José Peso de Burgo in 1780. Pellicer's wife and two youngest children died shortly after he bought the lot.

In 2000, Francisco Pellicer was nominated to become part of the Great Floridians Program.^[1] Pellicer Creek, just south of St. Augustine, is named after Francisco Pellicer.

Minorcan Pellicer and Corsican Peso de Burgo had been members of Dr. Andrew Turnbull's New Smyrna colony that eventually ended up in St. Augustine. Pellicer was a master carpenter and had built Turnbull's plantation home. Allegedly Pellicer was one of the men who came to Governor Tonyn in 1777 charging Turnbull with mistreatment of fellow colonists. In 1784 Peso de Burgo was identified as a storekeeper and half owner of a sloop.^[2]

A 1788 map describes both houses as being wooden. Both houses were one room and shared a wall. There was also a small outbuilding on the lot. Pellicer built his own house and potentially Peso de Burgo's as well. Peso de Burgo moved out of his home before 1791 and rented it out to lodgers.

In 1787 Francisco Pellicer sold his home to Greek fisherman and sailor Demetrios Fundulakis and his wife Maria Bros. Peso de Burgo sold his house in 1791 to Juan Sánchez, the chief master caulker of the royal works, who also rented out the house for income. He sold it in 1792 to John Martin Struder, who in turn sold the house in the mid-1790s to a Minorcan farmer named Pedro Fusha.

At some point prior to 1831, when a map show the lots to be vacant, the two houses were demolished. One Peter Arnau owned both lots at that time.^[2]