[Declaration of] Alejandro Jorje In St. Augustine, Florida, on the said day, month, and year, before Their Graces appeared present for the said investigation Alejandro Jorje, 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 [f.25] to tell the truth, and being questioned according to the tenor of the said auto, he said that having gone to scour the northern coast in the piragua named Nuestra senora de Regla, ofwhich the leader was Pedro Ortelano, and this witness his lieutenant, having gone to the town of Santa Elena and passed onward from it, in a plantation they found eleven items ofslaves, those whom they placed in this presidio, and he does not know to whom they pertain nor of what jurisdiction they were, because this witness did not debark on land in any of the plantations, nor does he know that anything else was found in it more than what he has declared, and this is the truth, aware of the oath that he has made, and he is of the age of thirty-eight years, and he did not sign, not knowing how to. Their Graces signed it. Thomlas Menendez Marquez Francisco de la Rocha Before me, Alonso Solana Public and Governmental Notary