 In 1765 he sailed to St. Augustine, Florida, the capital of the province, and secured the grant from Governor James Grant.The land was located at what is now New Smyrna Beach about south of St. Augustine.Turnbull then returned to England, secured financing for his forthcoming venture through bounties from the government and the Board of Trade, and subsequently sailed for the Mediterranean to find colonists "for a Tract of Land in East Florida on which I might settle a small Colony of Greeks," as Turnbull explained in a letter to Lord Shelburne.