Source: The Struggle for the Georgia Coast (ID129)
Author: Worth, John (ID94)
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Race described: Spanish
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1673-01-01 - 1673-12-31
half the labor draft were Yamassee; they outnumbered Guale and Mocama mission Indians
(Worth SGC)
The reason the Yamassee began to contribute to the Spanish labor draft for Guale and Mocama almost certainly relates to their increasing resettlement inside the territory of these two mission provinces. In 1673, nearly half (24 of 50) of the repartimiento laborers extracted from the Guale/Mocama provinces were Yamassee, and at least by 1675, the Indian population living in pagan Yamassee villages within the old Mocama region outnumbered the total number of mission Indians in both Guale and Mocama (see Addendum, Document 1, and below).
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