Source: Situado and Sabana (ID82)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID32)
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Race described: Spanish
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1647-01-01 - 1647-12-31
Escamacu accepted gifts and trade and allegiance with SA without converting to Christianity
The Atlantic provinces were less fertile but more accessible, and counting house records of the 1640s and 1650s show numerous brigantine trips from St. Augustine to Guale and Escamacu for loads of lndian corn and beans. The caciques of Escamacu accepted gifts from the gasto de indios, professed allegiance to the king, and sold maize to the presidio, all without offering to be Christians (Menendez Marquez and Horruytiner, 1647c; Santa Cruz, 1655).
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