The Rev. Elder Wilson Conner of Dead River and Long Pond was now a "Patriot" - one of those Georgians, who, under the clandestine approval of Madison and Monroe, took Amelia Island and Fernandina away from the Spaniards. The President and Secretary of State later crawfished and Wilson and the others had to get out in a hurry. That didn't stop him from going back in 1819 and starting the first Baptist church in Florida.