 The name Dunlawton was formed by combining her maiden name, Dunn, with the land dealers' name, Lawton.The brothers operated the mill with slave labor—processing sugar, molasses and rum on the property until December 1835, when the Second Seminole Indian War began.By late November, 1835, white settlers in the Territory of Florida were becoming alarmed by the activities of the Seminole Indians, some of whose leaders vehemently protested the official Indian removal policy of the United States, and Osceola's killing of Charley Emathla threatened to provoke an armed confrontation.