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Mexicans were brought to work the SA garrison; some became ranch hands
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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Skilled labor was inadvertently provided by the Viceroy of New Spain when he dispatched a company of Mexicans to the garrison. Purportedly useless as soldiers, since they were mestizos and not "real" Spaniards, many who were expert horsemen found themselves working on ranches. One, Francisco Perez de Castaneda from Xochimilco, later became the Menendez Marquez overseer and was married in Don Thomas's house. (Nicolas Ponce de Leon II, February 19, 1664; Joseph de Prado and Ju Menendez Marquez II, June 30, 1668; Florencia Visita of 1694-1695; Parish Register Marriages, April 20, 1678.) [Note: Judging from those they married, these Mexican recruits and those who came later were mestizos or mulattoes.] (Bushnell MM)
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