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Menendez established settlements among many Indian provinces

Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558

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18. The conquest of Florida being in this state, Pedro Menéndez employed the rest of the year 1566 in exploring distant provinces and bringing the heathen to the worship of the Holy Cross and to allegiance to Spain. He examined rivers, ports, and bars, so that on the eastern coast, from the bay and the province of Carlos to Santa Elena in 32° 30', he won to adherence to the King all the provinces and villages of Indians and their inhabitants, made peace with them, and founded settlements of Spaniards at San Agustin, San Mateo, Santa Elena, Santa Lucia, Tequesta,* [Arredondo note * Now called Province of the Coast Indians.] Carlos, and Tocobaga, not to mention another which Juan Pardo had planted by his order at the foot of the mountains in the province of Chief Coava.t [Arredondo note t One hundred and fifty leagues to the north, in the interior.] All were under the charge of captains and officers of character, with a suitable number of troops and religious, who, by their activity, teaching the Indians the Christian doctrine and preaching the gospel, cast out the errors of heathenism, which was the fruit to which the piety of the King aspired. 21. [Bolton note: Menendez's activities during this period were strenuous indeed. Hoping to find a northern passage to Asia, he sent soldiers and friars to found a northern outpost on Chesapeake Bay (Bay of Santa Maria), but the enterprise fell through.