Jupiter Made Famous By Quaker Merchant

In the late summer of 1696, strong winds blew all night and a young English Quaker merchant sailing Jamaica Philadelphia, was awakened in the morning storm. He looked dark against the terrible storm. His wife and child, son huddled in the basement of the ship with the crew, ten slaves and the ship's captain injured.

Master and the ship's captain ordered the casting off most of the provisions and had the candles, leaving the ship to be driven by the relentless force of wind and water. Hours later, as if sleep was somehow possible, the trader was almost feel calm when a sudden lurch and moaning filled his senses. He ran, fell, slid across the swaying bridge, got up and staggered to wait. Perhaps a lull enabled the crew and passengers merciful to use parts of the timber ship as it broke into pieces against the benches while aground in shallow water. Ultimately, all souls on board survived flow to face whatever lay ahead. The young merchant was none other than Jonathan Dickinson aboard the Reformation in his last hour.

The "Jobes" burned the ship but gave the castaways food they feared eating, thinking the "cannibals" authorized for this purpose in everyday Dickinson were ready to fatten the pot.

Finally, ownership of the ship's boat and some of its other provisions granted, the remaining market part (five people on the trip) made their way to St. Augustine and Philadelphia. The meeting put Jupiter on the map of the Western world.

Little was known Hobe, or more precisely, Jaega, tribe, there was no written Dickinson captured seventeen of a tribe on the west coast of Florida, Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda.

The town of Jupiter to his name anglicized term inadvertently Jove, that was poorly copied the work of some Hobe cartographer.

Modern residents of Jupiter Tori Amos Burt Reynolds barely bearable consider the city as much less attractive in its original form. All residents mis-trust, especially the Spaniards who Reform survivors tried to convince Hobe tribe they were. The Spaniards were known to kill or enslave those who ventured too far north to build their fortress in St. Augustine. Dickinson may have to face a very different fate struck his trip came a few years earlier.