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Sao Jorge

A City Journal by mrmapp

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An island discovered by Portuguese Colonials in the early 19th Century

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By 1801 other families have also been given permission to move out over the Island. Several farming families have settled in a valley upriver. They’ve called it Sao Jorge. Its 1806 and General Corte-Real has decided to split up the Island. Captain John Charles purchases a large section of land in the north, his son Richard Charles buys a section in the northeast. Corte-Reals son takes a section to the west and Captain Louis Aguilar buys a small holding on the west of the Island. Other Islanders and new...
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After landing on the island at the start of 1790 Lieutenant Tomas Corte-Real took control. He had 213 people to look after so decided it would be best to sleep on the ships to start with. There’s a bay protected from the sea by little islands so thats where they decided to drop anchor. As he was not to sure about the Island yet he sent two groups of men inland to investigate. One of these men, a farmer Heitor Lopes, ask if he found some fertile land could he build a farm for his family, all 14 of them. Two...
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In 1789 some Portuguese colonials were co-conspirators involved in the Inconfidencia Mineira which was a Brazilian independence movement. When this movement came to light and the ring leaders were arrested, a Lieutenant Tomas Corte-Real gathered together all those that wanted to flee Brazil. They hired some mercenaries (funded buy a rich Goldmine owner called Francisco Barreto) to help them cross South America. They headed to a port called Antofagasta. Once there they hired 3 ships to take them to a new...
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