| 11. | Reynolds'choice was to kill all in his way, the boys and Shorty Bowlegs.
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| 12. | The festival honors the local pirate legend, and is unrelated to the Seminole chief Billy Bowlegs.
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| 13. | Bowlegs befriended Jame Mallory and Minnie Moore Willson, who moved to Florida in the early 1880s.
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| 14. | He sent Billy Bowlegs and others to Washington again, but the chiefs refused to agree to move.
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| 15. | Although Bowlegs signed the Treaty of Payne's Landing of 1832, he refused to leave Florida.
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| 16. | In May, Bowlegs and his followers arrived in Southern planters, those with more than 20 slaves.
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| 17. | On March 15, Bowlegs'and Assinwar's bands accepted the offer and agreed to go west.
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| 18. | Billy Bowlegs was born five years after Bowles'death, though both did live and fight in Florida.
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| 19. | The annual "'Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival "'is held in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
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| 20. | The Davis family also claims lineage to the warrior Chief Billy Bowlegs, a contemporary of the great Seminole leader Osceola.
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