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The Luna Settlement (ID638)Author: Worth, John (ID94)
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1559-08-14 - 1561-12-31
Luna's colonists dropped from 1500-50
Puerto de Polonza. The settlement was initially inhabited by some 1,500 soldiers and colonists from New Spain, including up to 550 soldiers between infantry and cavalry, many of their families, servants and some African slaves, and 200 Aztec Indian warriors and craftspeople. The population of the Luna settlement never dropped below 50-100 inhabitants during its more than two-year duration, starting with 1,500 people in August of 1559, dropping to just 100 between February and July of 1560, when Luna led most of the settlers inland to an Indian town called Nanipacana, and then after their return ranging from perhaps 800 to less than 200 through April of 1561, when most of those left departed with Luna’s replacement governor Angel de Villafañe. A detachment of just 50-60 soldiers remained at the settlement until being withdrawn late in 1561.
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