395:, William Bartram wrote that he had visited Fort Picolata in April, 1774, and found it "dismantled and deserted". This is not what actually occurred; the misstatement may be attributed to the fact that it had been 18 years between his visit and the publication of his journal in 1792. In a report made in 1774 to his patron, Dr. John Fothergill (Fothergill was the agent in England for William’s father, John Bartram), Bartram wrote that he had stopped "at Picolata Fort. which I observed was newly repared ."
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