Florida Accountant Ponce de Leon worriedly wrote to the crown. He and Governor Horruytiner, he said, were keeping Treasurer Francisco Menendez Marquez in prison for his frauds in collecting the situados for 1631 and 1632. They had learned that the incoming governor and the new auditor, who was a vecino of Havana and a close connection of the treasurer, meant to release him. If the treasurer, intent on revenge, was to be let out of prison, the accountant wanted to be transferred to another post where his life would be in less danger. Menendez Marquez was indeed released, and in 1641 Ponce de Leon found occasion to go to Mexico City, where he stayed. [Note 45: Nicolas Ponce de Leon 11/20/1637 and 9/12/1638]