Date published: 2007-01-01
Source: The Struggle for the Georgia Coast (ID129)
Author: Worth, John (ID94)
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1702-01-01 - 1702-12-31

The changing locations of Mission San Phelipe IIIedit

(Worth SGC) APPENDIX A: LOCATIONAL DATA FOR GUALE AND MOCAMA MISSIONS, 1655-1685 San Phelipe III (1684-1702) The third distinct location for San Phelipe was established following the final removal of the Guale and Mocama missions from the Georgia coast after the pirate raid of 1684. San Phelipe seems to have been established on the then-abandoned site of the ca. 1675 Yamassee town ofLa Tama (Arcos, 1675), which was described at that time as being roughly 3 leagues south of the northern tip of the island (2 leagues south of Ocotoque, which was 1 league south of the northernmost Yamassee town on the island). San Phelipe was visited immediately after Santa Maria during the 1685 visitation of Domingo de Leturiondo (1685), and in 1689 was listed as the middle town on the Island of Santa Maria. In 1697, both the Spanish (Menendez Marquez and Florencia, 1697) and English (Dickenson, 1697) lists place San Phelipe only half a league north of Santa Maria. Using the known location ofMission Santa Maria (see below), these distances place San Phelipe III on the inland side of Amelia Island, probably at or near the site of modern Amelia City. San Phelipe was finally abandoned and burned during the 1702 Moore raid.

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