Date published: 2007-01-01
Source: The Struggle for the Georgia Coast (ID129)
Author: Worth, John (ID94)
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1685-01-01 - 1685-12-31

VISITATION OF GUALE AND MOCAMA (Mont 9)-16edit

Auto(68) NOTE 68. The final portion of the 1685 Leturiondo visitation represents a sort of summary and explicitly served to draw the governor's attention to those folios in the visitation record that contained unfinished business which he would need to attend to. Coincidentally, it also provides some hint of the nature of the material contained in the previous 92 folios relating to Apalachee and Timucua provinces, left behind by 18th-century notary Francisco de Castilla. AN518 "In the village of Nuestra Seniora de Guadalupe de Tholomato on the thirtieth 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 Guale and Mocama, before me, the notary, and the witnesses in attendance who will be declared later on, said that inasmuch as His Grace has finished, concluded, and terminated the visitations of Apalachee, Timucua, Mocama, and Guale, and it is necessary to make a delivery of them and other autos and documents made during the time of his visitation so that His Lordship the senor Governor Don Juan Marquez Cabrera, to whom they are to be delivered, finds himself informed about the visitations in which some cases and points arrive still pending, in which it is necessary that the said senor governor intervene in order to conclude their resolution, about the propositions and entreaties which the natives of these provinces have made, and that the first is that of San Luis de Thalimali, which is on folio 42 and following, about making the house of the King at the request of the natives;(69)" NOTE 69. This brief mention seems to refer to the construction of a structure for the Spanish at San Luis, the provincial garrison headquarters (see Hann, 1988b). "the visitation of Santa Cathalina, which is on folio 74 and following, about the tasks of the village, and that they should be aided for their development;(70)" NOTE 70. The Timucuan mission Santa Catalina de Ahoica had been largely destroyed in a Yamassee raid during February of 1685, and the visitation in November or December most likely centered on reconstruction or relocation. "the visitation of San Diego de Salamototo, which is on folio 87 and following, about some lands and fields that they ask for which Ventura Gonzalez has occupied; the visitations of Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; San Phelipe; Tupiqui; and San Juan which begin from folio 100 up to 110, about different points, requests, and circumstances; and likewise His Grace commands that the general autos of visitation be placed by folio and number so that His Lordship the senor governor might see the form and disposition [-] had in giving them to understand what [-] they have to observe and maintain.(71)" 71. Here ends folio 113 of the Leturiondo visitation of 1685. The content of the final entry suggests that only one folio more (folio 114) may have been left behind by Castilla, perhaps due to deterioration (folio 113 is in poor shape).

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Compliment John Worth for repeating explanations (i.e. Castilla) so the reader doesn't have to scan


Date Created: 2024-04-22 19:36:28
Source: Amy Notes (ID 702)
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Compliment John Worth for repeating explanations (i.e. Castilla) so the reader doesn't have to scan back to figure out who/what he's referring to.