Samuel Small (1826 or 1827 – October 30, 1883) was a Baptist minister and state legislator who lived in Ocala, Florida.
[1] The era was a hotbed of secessionist ferment before the American Civil War.
Soon after emancipation he became pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist Church.
[2] Eric Foner documented him as a literate farmer who was born in 1826 or 1827 and came to Florida before the Civil War.
[4] It was a former Spanish land grant later owned by John M. Taylor.