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Menendez Marquez boys fought the Searles attack
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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Five years later, when privateers from Jamaica under Robert Searles attacked St. Augustine and killed sixty persons in the streets, Juan and Antonio distinguished themselves in the defense of the fort, but Thomas was absent. (Ju Menendez Marquez II, July 4, 1668, and Governor Guerra y Vega, July 7, 1668.) He may have been on assignment with the little garrison in Timucua, and using his leave time to plan a new ranch in Potano. Most of the more affluent families of St. Augustine owned farms in the country, but the Menendez Marquez brothers wanted more than a small country place. (Auto on St. Mark's Day, April 27, 1697; Governor Zuniga y Cerda, Decree, November 6, 1702.) (Bushnell MM)
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