Albert Manucy

American six pounder field piece (1775) by Albert Manucy

Albert C. Manucy (1910–1997) was an author, historian and a Fulbright Scholar of Minorcan descent, from St. Augustine, Florida.

Manucy is a descendant of Josef Manucy, who sailed in 1768 from the city of Mahón to work on Andrew Turnbull's plantation in what was to be the failed colony of New Symrna. In 1779 Manucy's ancestor and the entire colony, made up mostly of Minorcans, left the dismal conditions of New Smyrna en masse. They walked 70 miles north to the then British controlled St. Augustine to request sanctuary, which they were granted.

Manucy received a Master’s degree in history from the University of Florida in 1934. He then obtained a position with the National Park Service and served as the official historian of the Castillo de San Marcos.

He studied Spanish architecture in Spain on a Fulbright scholarship and in 1966 became curator for the Southeast Regional Office of the Park Service. While conducting research for a book on St. Augustine (Sixteenth Century St. Augustine: The People and Their Homes) utilizing original Spanish documents, he discovered that from 1566 to 1572, the town of St. Augustine was actually situated on Anastasia Island, across Matanzas Bay from its current location.

Manucy was honored in the "Great Floridian 2000" program, created to pay tribute to notable residents of Florida, his Great Floridian plaque is located at the National Park Service Administration Building, 1 Castillo Drive, St. Augustine.^[1]

Bibliography

• The Houses of St. Augustine, 1566-1821 (1992) ISBN 0-8130-1103-5
• Sixteenth Century St. Augustine: The People and Their Homes. (1997) ISBN 0-8130-1484-0
• Menéndez: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Captain General of the Ocean Sea (1992) ISBN 1-56164-015-8
• Artillery Through the Ages: A Short Illustrated History of Cannon (Originally published in 1949, an official NPS publication, United States Government Printing Office, reprint: 1956 re- release:2008) ISBN 1-4344-7812-2
• The building of Castillo de San Marcos Published 1945 by U.S. Govt. print. off., reprint in Washington . Issued in 1942 as History no 1, Interpretive series of the National park service. Series [U. S.] National park service. Popular study series. History, no. 16 Library of Congress E160 .U624 no. 16

References

1. ^ The Great Floridians 2000 Program