Don Vicente de Cespedes y Velasco (-1794) was a Spanish governor of Santiago de Cuba (1781-1782) and, especially, of West Florida (1784-1790).
Don Vicente Manuel de Zespedes Cespedes y Velasco was born in Valencia, Spain in the eighteenth century, but the year of his birth is unknown. His paternal grandfather, José de Céspedes, was a lieutenant general of the Royal Army and Governor of Rosalcazár in Orán and his maternal grandfather, Martín Arostegui Larrea, was a Knight of Santiago (1750) in Spain. In 1781, he was elected acting governor of Santiago de Cuba, but this charge only kept a year, so that left him in 1782. A few years later, in 1784, he was elected Governor of West Florida, whose post he held until 1790, date when he was replaced by Juan Nepomuceno de Quesada and Barnuevo in the government of the colony. He was also "Field Marshal of the Royal Army". De Cespedes married Maria de la Conception Basabe Arostegui the July 22, 1754, in the Cathedral de San Cristóbal de Havana, Cuba. He died on October 21 1794 and he was buried in the Cathedral of San Cristóbal of Havana. [1]