Jonathan Dickinson Shipwreck

Three miles to the east on September 23, 1696, the British barkentine<i> Reformation</i> foundered off Jupiter Island. The 24 survivors included a party of Quakers bound from Jamaica to Pennsylvania. Leader of the Quakers was Jonathan Dickinson who described the trials of the group in his book,<i> God's Protecting Providence,</i> the first account of Indians on the southeast coast. Attacked by Indians and driven northward, the party arrived at St. Augustine in November, 1696.