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The Yamasee allied with the English near Carolina and returned to sack Guale

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

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The next we hear of them the Yamasee have taken the lead among those Indians which sought refuge near the English colony of Carolina and they became so prominent that the English do not appear to have been aware that any other Indians accompanied them.

In a letter to the Spanish monarch, dated London, October 20, 1734, Fray Joseph Ramos Escudero seems to attribute their primacy to encouragement given the Yamasee by the English and the supplies of clothing and arms with which they provided them.4 In the copy of this letter made by Miss Brooks the name of the tribe is consistently spelled Llamapas, but there can be no question regarding its identity. The original Y has been transposed into a double I and the old style ss into p. Escudero explains their removal from the Spanish colony by saying that these Yamasee "had a grudge against a certain governor of Florida on account of having ill treated their chief by words and deeds, because the latter, owing to the
sickness of his superior, had failed one year to send to the city of St. Augustine, Florida, a certain number of men for the cultivation of the lands as he was obliged to do."

Another account of the rebellion is given by Barcia. Referring to the colony of South Carolina, he says:
"Some Indians fled to this province because the English who occupied it had persuaded them to give them obedience, instead of to the king; especially the chief of the lamacos, a nation which lived in the province of Guale, becoming offended at the governor, without being placated by the strong persuasions and repeated kindnesses which the Franciscan missionaries showed to him in the year l684, for despising all he withdrew to his country and afterwards gave obedience to the English settled in Santa Elena and San Jorge, other Indians following him; and not satisfied with this
lapse of faith, he returned the following year to the province of Timuqua or Timagna to make war, plundered the Doctrina of Santa Catalina, carried off the furnishings of the church and convent of San Francisco, burned the town, inflicted grievous death on many Indians, and carried back other prisoners to Santa Elena, where he made slaves of them, which invasion was so unexpected that it could not be foreseen nor prevented . . . '