(Worth SGC) 1739-8-15 Montiano's cover letter and index for his document package to the king By an original investigation from the year of 1726, number 14 [Document 14, this volume], in the declaration on the reverse of the first folio [f.9, vto.] of Captain Don Juan Ruiz Mexia, of the age of 82 years (who when the English introduced themselves into San Jorge was of the age of 21), it is on record that San Jorge, Santa Elena, Santa Catalina, Zapala, Guadalquini, Peraban, San Phelipe, Santa Maria, and San Juan del Puerto are towns and territories pertaining to this government, and that, [confronted] with the hostilities which they received from the English of Carolina, they came retreating back to the Island of Santa Maria, where they maintained themselves divided in three towns until the year 1702.