(Worth SGC) ADDENDUM: THREE ADDITIONAL ORDERS REGARDING GUALE, 1673-1700 INTRODUCTION Soon after the August 14 completion of Governor Manuel de Montiano's formal report and package of appended documents, three additional orders relative to the same subject came to the governor's attention. Quickly penning a cover letter explaining the relevance of their contents, Montiano added the original orders to his final submission to Spain, dated August 18, 1739 (see Preface). Placed here as an addendum to the primary Montiano package, these orders date to 1673, 1699, and 1700, respectively, and provide additional details regarding the repartimiento labor draft during the 1670s, as well as references to two expeditions sent by Florida governors to deliver shipwrecked Englishmen to Charles Town. Governor Montiano's introductory letter is presented below, followed by the text of each order and with a brief introduction. [f.1] My Lord I place in the sovereign royal understanding of Your Majesty that after having concluded the report of the 14th of the current [month], directed toward demonstrating and making known with evidence the direct dominion and ownership that without a shadow of confusion or doubt Your Majesty has to the provinces to the north of this post, some papers arrived in my hands that are the same [f. 1,vto.] originals that I pass to the [hands] ofYour Majesty, in which the following things are verified. In the [document] number 1, duplicated, it is on record that in the year of 1673, by order of Governor Don Manuel de Cendoya, Adjutant Diego Diaz Mexia drafted fifty Indians from the villages of the mentioned provinces [of Guale], which at that time were the island and village of Santa Maria, the island of Guadalquini, the Yamase caciques, the village of San Phelipe, [f.2] the village of Asaho, Zapala, Tupiqui, and the villages of Santa Catalina and Satuache. In the [document] number 2, duplicated, it is on record that in the year 1699 Governor Don Laureano de Torres dispatched Ensign Don Luis Rodrigo so that he should go to San Jorge to transport some Englishmen lost on the coast to the south of this post, giving him an order to take four soldiers from [this post] and two from the province of Guale, and at the same time [f.2,vto.] the experienced Indians who might be necessary from there, and that on the return from his journey he should leave the two soldiers of Guale in their destination. In the [document] number 3, duplicated, it is on record that in the year 1700 Governor Don Joseph de Zuniga dispatched the aforementioned Ensign Don Luis Rodrigo so that he should go to San Jorge to transport some Englishmen and blacks who had been lost in the environs of this post to the [f.3] the north in a ship, and in the province of Guale in a launch, from which it can be concretely inferred that if the province of Guale was the residence of the English, it would not have been necessary to make use of the courtesy and friendship of picking them up from the accident suffered in their home and take them to their own home, because their very own servants would have had this care. This is as much about the matter as occurs to me [f.3,vto.] to place in the royal comprehension of Your Majesty, whose Royal Catholic person may God guard the many happy years that Christianity has need of. St. Augustine, Florida, August 18, 1739. My lord, Don Manuel de Montiano