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Capt. Arguelles blocked William Hilton from Port Royal

Source: The Debatable Land #557

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William Hilton was sent from Barbados to explore the Carolina coast. When he arrived at Parris Island he found there Captain Arguelles with soldiers from San Agustin. Presents were exchanged. The Spaniards proffered venison and pork; the Englishmen responded with a jug of brandy. But Hilton was cautious and withdrew to avoid capture. The Spaniards had blocked the way to Port Royal.1 [Note 1 For Hilton, Yeamans, Sandford, and Woodward, see Shaftesbury Papers (South Carolina Historical Society Collections, Vol. V, 1897), pp. 18-28, 57-82, and index; McCrady, Edward, The History of South Carolina under the Proprietary Government, 1670-1719 (New York, 1897), pp. 71-72, 81-93; Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, America and West Indies, 1669-1674 (London, 1889), p. 246; Swanton, J, R., Early History of the Creek Indians (Washington, 1922), 62-67. For a biographical sketch of Woodward, see Joseph W. Barnwell, "Dr. Henry Woodward, The First English Settler in South Carolina, and Some of his Descendants (South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, VIII, no. 1, January, 1907, pp. 29-41). Among Woodward's many distinguished descendants one was Robert Y. Hayne, of "Webster-Hayne debate" fame.]