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Spain responded to SC settlement by finally sending money to SA
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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In 1670, two years after the Searles raid on St. Augustine, Charles Towne was founded sixty leagues up the coast. Accountant Juan commanded a small fleet that hoped to destroy this settlement, but a storm dispersed his boats. Before anything else could be attempted, news came that Spain had made peace with England. The two powers may have intended this peace only as a breathing period, but the effects on St. Augustine were immediate. Authorities in New Spain, whose interest in Florida had been reawakened as a result of the Searles raid, now began forwarding everything that had been lacking: weapons and ammunition, supplies, soldiers to replenish the garrison quota, and most important, money--enough to pay debts and back wages and to start constructing a stone castillo. [Note: Interim Governor NicolAs Ponce de Leon II informed the Crown that Charleston (San Jorge) had been settled in 1669. See July 8, 1673. Settlement actually took place in April 1670, three months prior to the Treaty of Madrid which defined boundaries on the principle of uti possidetis de facto.] AN175 (Bushnell MM)
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