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'''Arnaldo Guillemard''' (alternately '''Arnauld''' and '''Arnauldo''') was a Spanish lieutenant in Pensacola at the time of its transfer to the United States in [[1821]]. He was married to Marie Josepha de Villiers, daughter of Captain [[Marcos de Villiers]]. Records show him purchasing a 40' by 170' lot from [[Joaquin Barela]] in July 1804<ref>http://memory.loc.gov/ll/llsp/031/0200/02070196.tif</ref> and later receiving a land grant of 80' by 230'8" in March 1810<ref>http://memory.loc.gov/ll/llsp/031/0100/01970186.tif</ref>.
After the arrest of former Governor [[Jose Callava]] by [[Andrew Jackson]], a group of thirteen Spanish officers, which included Guillemard and de Villiers, wrote a "Declaration of many respectable witnesses of what passed," which enumerated a number of what they perceived to be injustices perpetrated by Jackson on the Spanish population. No action was taken at the time, but when a newspaper published an anonymous advertisement critical of Jackson and his deputy [[Henry Brackenridge]], Jackson ordered the banishment of Guillemard, de Villiers and six other signatories of the previous declaration.<ref name="goza">http://smathersdlcl3.uflib.ufl.edu/docsb/news/Goza/336.sgm</ref></blockquote>