The April, 2009, issue of The Florida Genealogist contains an anecdote that was originally published in the St. Augustine Herald*:

In a skirmish between a party of Spanish troops and [Seminole] Indians, Tohopahay, a chief, was severely wounded by a load of buck shot. He bears with it for years,but becoming disordered from the effects of his wounds, and it being the opinion of his friends that it would at length occasion his death, he exclaimed, "It shall not be said that I was killed by a Spaniard!" -- and deliberately hung himself.

*The article in The Florida Genealogist uses the title St. Augustine Herald, but the proper name of the newspaper published in St. Augustine was the East Florida Herald, which was founded in 1822 and published under that name until 1829, when the newspaper's name was changed to the Florida Herald.

Obviously that newspaper was referring to an incident (which may have been apocryphal) that had happened in the past, since the Spanish officially relinquished Florida to the Americans on July 17, 1821.