Editing Lake Panasoffkee, Florida (section)

===Early inhabitants===
Boggy Island was an autonomous black Seminole village that was settled by Central African slaves from [[kingdom of Kongo|Kongo]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Landers |first=Jane |title=Slavery in Colonial North America |work=Race, Development and Social Inequality Lectures |publisher=[[Vanderbilt University]] |date=Sep 26, 2006 |url=http://www.erudito.fea.usp.br/PortalFEA/Repositorio/1181/Documentos/leitura_1_1_2.pdf |access-date=May 6, 2014}}</ref>  Black Seminoles settled near the Boggy Island area of Lake Panasoffkee around 1813 and named it Sitarkey's Village after Sitarkey, an Alachua Seminole who had settled in the area.  Nearby laid the areas of Gum Slough and Indian Mound Springs.<ref name="LP Archaeology">{{cite journal |last1=Mitchem |first1=Jeffery M. |last2=Weisman |first2=Brent R. |date=Jun 1987  |title=Changing Settlement Patterns and Pottery Types in the Withlacoochee Cove |url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00027829/00037/ |journal=The Florida Anthropologist |location=[[Jacksonville, Florida]] |publisher=Florida Anthropological Society |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=154–156, 160–163 |access-date=Apr 25, 2014}}</ref> The Seminoles used the Lake Panasoffkee area to hold councils and [[Green Corn Ceremony|Green Corn Dances]].<ref name="Coleman and LP">{{cite journal |last=Thomas Foreman |first=Carolyn |title=General Bennet Riley—Commandant at Fort Gibson and Governor of California |date=Sep 1941  |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v019/v019p225.html |journal=Chronicles of Oklahoma |publisher=[[Oklahoma State University]]  |volume=19 |issue=3 |page=241 |access-date=Apr 4, 2014}}</ref>

The black Seminoles raised corn, rice, and sugar cane which Dexter gave them in 1822.<ref name="LP Archaeology"/>  In addition, residents in Sitarkey's Village raised livestock, including cattle, horses, and hogs.<ref name="Trade Networks">{{cite thesis |last=Carrier |first=Toni |title=Trade and Plunder Networks in the Second Seminole War in Florida, 1835-1842 |publisher=[[University of South Florida]] |type=MA thesis |date=Apr 14, 2005 |location=[[Tampa, Florida]] |pages=30 |url=https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/2811/ |access-date=December 15, 2022 }}</ref>  They also possibly planted one of the oldest orange groves in Florida.<ref name="Sumter Show">{{cite news |last=Coll |first=Aloysius |title=Sumter County Citizens Want to Show Goods |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |location=[[St. Petersburg, Florida]] |date=May 23, 1926 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19260523&id=gw9PAAAAIBAJ&pg=6380,7159160 |access-date=May 8, 2014}}</ref>