[1] From the diary of Dedham, Massachusetts physician Nathaniel Ames, we know that Stork performed cataract couching.

Stork made a career change in 1764, and decided to be a plantations agent in the colony of East Florida.

[3] The book reputedly featured a plagiarised copy of a map by George Gauld, who wrote (speaking of himself in the third person):[4] In the summer of 1765 he made an accurate survey of the Bay of Spiritu Santo, which soon afterwards appeared in Stork's History of East Florida.

How it happened to be published there we cannot pretend to say; but it is the only part of the many surreptitious sketches, which have been pirated from Mr. Gauld's works, that has been literally and pretty correctly copied; tho' there is an error of about 30 miles or more in the Latitude.A manuscript work by John William Gerard de Brahm, in the library of Harvard University, listing the residents of East Florida up to 1771, refers to him as "William Stork, Esq., historian".

as a Florida inhabitant between the years 1763 and 1771 "In the King's Employ" under the category of "Draughtsmen" with the stated qualifications "Oculist, Physician", with his status listed as "Dead.