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William Whitaker (pioneer)
William Henry Whitaker (1821 - 1888) was an American Seminole War veteran and pioneer who, under the provisions of the Armed Occupation Act, established the first permanent settlement in what is now Sarasota, Florida.〔Burnett Gene M. (1986) ''Florida's
Past: People and Events that Shaped the State''. Pineapple Press Inc., Sarasota, FL〕〔McDuffee, Lillie B. (1961)''Lures of the Manatee - A True Story of South Florida's Glamourous Past''. Foote & Davies Inc., Bradenton, FL〕 There he traded mullet with Cubans to bring the first groves of economically important oranges to the state.〔Fine, Sally. ''Sarasota Herald Tribune'' Sunday November 19, 1991〕〔Whitaker, A.K. ''One Man's Family'' 1969. Page 3 Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection hosted by the University of South Florida http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/m1.search. "Some credit Bill with planting the first citrus grove in Florida - others say the first in Manatee - Sarasota area. I feel that some others must have had small plantings for their own use while in the area so it seems more reasonable to me to say that Bill's was probably the first commercial citrus grove for he did sell and ship the fruit later"〕 He later married Mary Jane Wyatt and with her raised Nancy Whitaker, the first child recorded in the new county of Sarasota. His father-in-law, William Wyatt, was a constitutional delegate who helped to originate, and signed, Florida's first constitution. At the end of the Civil War he helped Judah P. Benjamin escape to London.〔
Whitaker was an eighth-generation descendant of Jabez Whitaker, brother of Alexander Whitaker, the Jamestown colonist and theologian who baptized and performed the marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe.
==Early life==
He was born in 1821 in Savannah, Georgia to Richard Whitaker and his second wife, Frances Snell. At the age of twelve, he left home with ten dollars and a gold watch to St. Marks, Florida, then the primary seaport of Florida's west coast. He worked there in the fishing trade and in time crossed paths with his half-brother Hamlin Valentine Snell, who later became President of the Florida Senate, Speaker of the House and later, Tampa's 8th mayor. Living in Tallahassee, Snell committed William to a formal education, arranging lodging and board. It was in Tallahassee that he met his would-be wife Mary Jane Wyatt. In 1840, at age nineteen, Whitaker enlisted in Florida's Mounted Militia for three months to fight in the Second Seminole War, for which he was compensated $70. The occupation entry on his enlistment papers read "school boy".〔 Whitaker served with his Regiment at Fort Macomb and other wartime camps where illness plagued him. As the war was concluding, Whitaker traveled Florida's Gulf Coast and to Havana, Cuba, working in the fishing trade.
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