Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida (ID163)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID32)
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1700-01-01 - 1799-12-31
The Menendez Marquez cattle reproduced wild across Florida
In the 18th century the hollow peninsula of Florida began to fill with buffalo, deer, and thousands of wild black cattle. Outlaws of all races found good hunting in Florida. The British, and then the Spanish, recognized the fait accompli and relinquished by treaty the lands across the St. Johns. [Note: The Treaty of Picolata in 1765 disregarded Spanish land claims west of the St. Johns.] But the Menendez Marquez family did not forget their former holdings. In the will of Francisco [9/2/42]...
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