SAINT AUGUSTINE FLORIDA HISTORICAL RECORDS BEING DIGITALIZED link to full article via Saint Augustine's newspaper and Associated Press!
"These parish documents date back to 1594, and they record the births, deaths, marriages and baptisms of the people who lived in St. Augustine from that time through the mid-1700s. They're the earliest written documents from any region of the United States, according to J. Michael Francis, a history professor at the University of South Florida."