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Governor Salazar encouraged creoles to give up their garrison positions to settle Apalache

Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163

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With the influx of castillo builders and soldiers, the St. Augustine Spanish population had recovered and was increasing. Plans were proposed for new towns of Spaniards in Timucua and Apalache provinces to provide defense against a foreign take-over. Governor Hita y Salazar issued numerous estancia licenses in both provinces, including some to Florencias and some to his own sons. He encouraged the creoles to resign their places in the garrison and to move into the interior to occupy the land and make it productive. (Joseph Prado and Ju Menendez Marquez II, September 22, 1667; Domgo Leturiondo, Madrid, December 30, 1672; NicolAs Ponce de Le6n II, March 24, 1675; Governor Hita y Salazar, September 6, 1677 and October 30, 1678.) Settlers took their families to San Luis, the new capital of Apalache, where they started ranches and became middlemen for the sale of Indian produce. One Spaniard entered into partnership with the chief of Ajoica in Utina to start an hacienda on that town's abandoned fields. (Alonso de Leturiondo, Relacion (Madrid, n.d. [1700?]); Leturiondo Visita of 1677-1678.)
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