 He settled on Fort George Island in 1814 after leasing it from McIntosh.He purchased the land and buildings for $7,000 in 1817 ($ in 2009).Kingsley owned several plantations around the lower St. Johns River in what is today Jacksonville, and Drayton Island in central Florida; two of them may have been managed part-time by his wife, a former slave named Anna Madgigine Jai (1793–1870).