Governor Corcoles indicated that this was not an idle boast when he reported in 1711 that only 401 Indians still remained under his wing, certainly a sharp contrast to the 26,000 converts reported in the mid-17th century. Corcoles had gathered the faithful 401 into six towns near For San Marcos—Nuestra Senora de Rosario (displaced Apalaches), Nombre de Dios, Tolomato, Santa Maria, San Francisco, Potano, and Costa (an infidel town). Here he and his Franciscans protected the Indians from attack and ministered to their physical and spiritual needs. [Note 13: gov to king 4/9/1711] Resurgence of an Indian Program, 1715-1718 At no time between 1700 and 1763 was Spanish influence over the Indians at a lower ebb than during Queen Anne’s War. Driven from their villages, intimidated, captured, tortured, and murdered, the Indians found the poverty-stricken Spaniards poor allies, and in the end only 400 natives withstood English pressure and deprivation to remain with the governor in Saint Augustine. By the end of the war it appeared that the Floridians had lost all hope of re-establishing their pre-eminent place among the Indians of the Southeast. But in 1715... (Tepaske GSF)