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Indian uprising and civil war 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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The chief of San Martin, outraged that chiefs should be required to carry their own rations of maize on their backs when coming to help the Spanish, started an uprising in Potano and Utina in 1656. The "Great Rebellion" erupted into an eight-month civil war between loyal and rebel Indians. The whole countryside deserted their towns for the woods out of fear, and bands of starving people roamed from place to place. It was during this time that the herds of cattle at Francisco's ranch were destroyed. (Fr. Juan Gomez de Engraba to Fr. Francisco Martinez, Havana, March 13, 1657; Friars, September 10, 1657; Sdor Cigarroa, Madrid, June 25, 1659.) (Bushnell MM)
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