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Smallpox killed all of SA's royal slaves and many Indians
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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Six years after the epidemic of 1649, smallpox was reported in Florida. All of the royal slaves died, and many of the Indians. The plague atmosphere produced a kind of recklessness in the city. In an irregular popular election Pedro Benedit Horruytiner was chosen governor, and immediately issued 44 officers' patents, including twenty-three for captain. (Anonymous, November 20, 1655.) (Bushnell MM)
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