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Famine in Florida
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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Famine followed plague. The wheat flour was used up and, more seriously, one of the 1653 maize crops was damaged by a wind storm. In the "noble and loyal city of St. Augustine," people were living on distasteful wild roots and shellfood. (Acclamation of Philip V, January 7, 1702; Santos de las Heras and Joseph de Prado, August 24, 1653.) (Bushnell MM)
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