[Declaration of] Cojimar In St. Augustine, Florida, on the said day, month, and year, Their Graces for the said investigation commanded to appear before them Sergeant Sebastian de Cojimar, resident in this city, who before me, the notary, was sworn in before God and a sign of the cross, in legal form, and having done so, aware of it, he promised to tell the truth, and being questioned according to the tenor of the said auto he said that having left from this port in the piragua of Captain Alejandro Thomas de Leon, coastal guard of the city of Havana who came to this presidio by order and command of the senores governors of the said city of Havana to the aid of this post, and having arrived at it, they passed to the coasts of the north up to the plantations and towns of San Jorje, habitation of the English, and having entered four of them,(78) NOTE 78. This is the largest number of plantations stated to have been plundered, inasmuch as other accounts (including those of the English) typically only mention those of Governor Morton and Paul Grimball. they only found eleven [f.24, vto.] items of slaves; a candelabra of silver, and according to what appeared on an inscription that it has on its circumference, it seems to be from the Santo Christo de San Roman of the city of Campeche; a chasuble; a mirror; and a pan [paila] of iron; and he does not know that anything else was found in the said four plantations that he said were of the jurisdiction of San Jorje, and what he has said and declared is the truth and what he knows, aware of the oath that he has made, which he affirms and ratifies, and he is of the age of thirty-six years, and he signed it together with Their Graces. Thomas Menendez Marquez Francisco de la Rocha Sebastian Cojimar Before me, Alonso Solana Public and Governmental Notary