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A Spanish captain was ordered to rebuild depopulated Timucua towns
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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A letter from Capt. Juan Francisco de Florencia to the then governor of Florida, dated 1670, states that in November, 1659, he had been ordered to go to the provinces of Ustaqua and Timucua to people and rebuild the towns of San Francisco, Santa Fe, San Martin, and San Juan de Guacara, which had been depopulated because some natives had died in the pestilences they had had and others had gone to the forests (montes), "because these places formed the passageway and means of communication to the said provinces from the presidio of St. Augustine." 1 This depopulation was probably due immediately to the great rebellion. (Swanton)
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