Date published: 2007-01-01
Source: The Struggle for the Georgia Coast (ID129)
Author: Worth, John (ID94)
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1681-01-01 - 1681-12-31

Governor Cabrera created a clash between the military and the Franciscansedit

(Worth SGC) The year 1681 in Guale was also marked by other conflict, but this time between the Franciscans and the Spanish military. A running battle developed almost immediately between newly installed Governor Marquez Cabrera and the missionaries of Guale, and the documentation which was developed as a result is voluminous (see Gannon, 1981; Bushnell, 1994). At stake was a fundamental jurisdictional struggle (indeed, one which had been simmering for years) between the Franciscans and the military government of Spanish Florida, and during the next year Guale would become a focal point for occasional clashes between the provincial Lieutenant Francisco de Fuentes and Fray Juan de Uceda in the crowded atmosphere of San Joseph de Sapala. Tensions shifted away from the Georgia coast with the transferral of Captain Fuentes to the Lieutenancy of the western Apalachee province in mid-1682 (where the church/state struggle nevertheless raged on), however Guale and Mocama were due for a rude awakening the following year.

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