Question: Where in Florida was there a contingent of Scottish Highlanders from 1736 to 1742?
Answer: Amelia Island
Amelia Island hosted the Scottish Highlanders during that time. They spoke Gaelic and wore Highland dress. As such, they were outliers in America just as they were back home, where Lowland Scots called them the “Irish.” James Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia in 1732, stationed Highlanders at Fort Amelia, one of a half dozen forts used as buffers for his fragile new colony against the Spanish.
