With the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Navy's destruction of the Negro Fort on the Apalachicola coming up this summer, I have posted on my ZERO, NORTHWEST FLORIDA blog an article I wrote in 2013 about how the Spanish attempted to compensate the Innerarity brothers for their loses incurred due to the Spanish allowing the British in 1814 to build the so-called Negro Fort in Spanish East Florida. I wrote this article for a Panama City magazine but the editor REFUSED to print it. When you look at I.G. Searcy’s 1829 Florida map, the first American map of the Florida Territory, the entire Washington County portion of the map around St. Andrews Bay is labeled “Innerarity’s Claim”.