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Yamasee at San Antonio requested a Catholic minister

Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121

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They come to light next in Spanish documents, this time unequivocally, in a letter of Gov. Don Pablo de Hita Salazar, dated March 8, 1680. He says:
"It has come to the notice of his honor that some Yamasee Indians, infidels (unos yndioe Yamasis ynfieles), who are in the town which was that of San Antonio de Anacape, have asked for a minister to teach them our holy Catholic faith."

This mission was 20 leagues from St. Augustine, evidently that called Antonico in the Fresh Water district, and the governor entrusted these Yamasee at first to the care of Fray Bartholome de Quifiones, Padre and Doctrinero del Puehlo de Maiaca, which was 16 leagues heyond. These Yamasee explain why the station of San Antonio is called a "new conversion" in the mission list of 1680, although it existed at a very much earlier period as a Timucua mission. The application of the term "infidels" to them is significant; had they been from the coast district of Guale they would in all probability have been Christianized by this time.
(Swanton)