(Worth SGC) DOCUMENT 9: 1685 VISITATION OF GUALE AND MOCAMA [f.93](4) NOTE 4. Here begins the 17th-century visitation record, starting on folio 93 of the original bound notebook including in addition the visitations of Apalachee and Timucua. Serving as the cover sheet for the visitation of Guale and Mocama, this initial folio was drafted after the auto that follows on folio 94, inasmuch as a copy of the original commission to Sergeant Major Leturiondo was ordered to be made and attached to the front of the visitation record within the text of the second auto (see below). "The Captain and Sergeant Major Don Juan Marquez Cabrera, governor and captain general of the city of St. Augustine, Florida, and its provinces for His Majesty: Inasmuch as Sergeant Major Domingo de Leturiondo, whom I have named as commissary visitor of the provinces of Apalache and Timucua finds himself now on the return journey from visiting the said provinces,(5)" NOTE 5. A letter from the provincial Lieutenant of Timucua Manuel Gomez to Governor Marquez Cabrera dated November 12, 1685, reveals, among other things, that Sergeant Major Domingo de Leturiondo had sent him a letter from Apalachee instructing him to meet him in the border mission of Asile "in order to come with him making the visitation" of the Timucua province (Gomez, 1685). Only six days later the governor dispatched the official title of visitor of the provinces of Guale and Mocama, which Leturiondo encountered in Salamototo. "and it is advisable because of the satisfaction and confidence which I have in his person that he go to the provinces of Guale and Mocama to visit the towns of Santa Maria, Santa Cruz, San Pedro, and San Juan; therefore, aware of the zeal with which he attends to the royal service of His Majesty, for the present in his royal name I elect and name him as commissary visitor of the said provinces of Guale and Mocama, so that as such he should visit the said towns, placing them in order and social regulation, keeping in everything to my instruction which he carried, which for all that he performs and sets in motion in the said visitation, I give him ample and sufficient commission, as I have from His Majesty, and all the permanent residents and inhabitants, caciques and mandadores, and the rest of the native Indians should regard him as commissary visitor, and observe all the honors, favors, privileges, freedoms, and liberties which ought to be well and completely observed on account of the said charge. And the accountant of the royal hacienda will take the copy of this dispatch in the books of the royal contaduria, for which I commanded the present to be dispatched, signed by my hand, sealed with the seal of my arms, and endorsed by the undersigned public and governmental notary. Given in the city of St. Augustine, Florida, on the eighteenth of the month of November, sixteen eighty-five, Don Juan Marquez Cabrera. By order of the senor governor and captain general, Alonso Solana, public and governmental notary.(6)" NOTE 6. The preceding order was dispatched by Governor Marquez Cabrera in late November, while Leturiondo was concluding his visitation of Apalachee and Timucua. The Sergeant Major would eventually receive it in the village of Salamototo, from which point he apparently proceeded directly to Guale and Mocama (see the auto that follows). "Agrees with the original title, to which I refer, and by order of the senior Sergeant Major Domingo de Leturiondo, judge visitor general [f.93, vto.] of these provinces of Apalache, Timucua, and Guale, I transcribed this copy in order to place it in this visitation as its head, finding themselves present at this transcription as witnesses in attendance Squad Leader Antonio del Pino and Diego Camunas, who signed. The said squad leader did not sign because he did not know how. To all the above I, the notary, swear. Signed in the village of Santa Cruz de Buenaventura on the twenty-first of the month of December, sixteen eighty-five. Bernardo Nieto de Carvajal Named Notary Diego Camunas [f.94] Auto(7)" NOTE 7. This document initiates the process of visitation for the provinces of Guale and Mocama, setting forth the background for the visitation, the various participants in the process, and the order to attach the original commission as visitor to the front of the record. "In the village of Santa Cruz de San Buenaventura in the province of Guale and Mocama on the twenty-first of the month of December, sixteen eighty-five, His Grace the senor Sergeant Major Domingo de Leturiondo, maintained with advantage by His Majesty in the presidio of St. Augustine, Florida, judge visitor general of the provinces of Apalache, Timucua, and Guale. By titles and commission of the senior Captain and Sergeant Major Don Juan Marquez Cabrera, governor and captain general of the city and presidio of St. Augustine, Florida, and its provinces for His Majesty, before me, notary, and the witnesses in attendance who will be declared later, said that inasmuch as His Grace having visited the said provinces of Apalache and Timucua, he found in the town of San Diego de Salamototo the title of visitor of this province of Guale and Mocama, dispatched by the said senor governor, and in order to fulfill this which is ordered by him, it is necessary that it be made known to Captain Alonso de Arguelles, lieutenant of this province, that in virtue of [this title], rendering the obedience which is ordered, he should cease in the government and political and military command so that His Grace, the said senior visitor might proceed to deal with the said visitation,(8)" NOTE 8. As a standard feature of any official visitation, the acting lieutenant governor within the province was suspended from his post during the visitation in order to permit free and open airing of all grievances against him or the soldiers under his command, and to give the visiting officer power to act independently of the resident lieutenant. The lieutenant's post was reinstated at the end of the visitation, presuming no substantial charges had been lodged against him. "and that I, the present notary, by virtue of the title which His Grace dispatched in order to act in the preceding visitations, should proceed and continue in conformance with this,(9)" NOTE 9. This passage indicates that Bernardo Nieto de Carvajal served as notary for all the visitations carried out by Leturiondo that year. "together with the witnesses in attendance for greater justification, and he named as interpreters for this visitation Diego Camunas and Santiago, an Indian native of this province, and the said Bartholome, who served in the [province] of Timucua, so that he might speak in this said village and that of San Juan, by being of the language of Mocama, and this auto was made known to them to them, so that they should respect it and swear to perform the said office well and faithfully, and the present notary should extract a copy of the said original title and place it as the head of this visitation so that it might be on record for all time. And for this his auto, he thus provided, commanded, and signed, being present as witnesses in attendance Squad Leader [f.94, vto.] Antonio del Pino and Diego Camunas, who signed it, and the said squad leader did not sign, not knowing how to, and to everything I, the notary, swear. Domingo de Leturiondo Diego Camunas Before me, Bernardo Nieto de Carvajal Named Notary"