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Arredondo described the origins of European settlement in FL

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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9. Up to this point the beginnings and early history of the discoveries, conquests, and establishments of the Spaniards and English on the Continent of Florida have been set forth with discrimination as to events and the years in which they took place, and also as to what unquestionably belonged to each nation. A clear statement has been made of the legal rights of the Catholic King to the region from San Felipe, in Santa Elena, the last settlement and presidio in the north of which his Majesty enjoyed possession, to the cape and bay of Santa Maria, because it was not settled by the English until after the explorations of Lucas Vasquez de Ayllón and Pedro Menendez Marques. And a detailed account has been given of the errors authenticated by some maps, sea-charts, reports, and printed books, carelessly and with lack of correct information, because of the confusion into which events have fallen on account of the many and diverse names that have been given to these provinces, coasts, capes, towns, and rivers, each one endeavoring to make himself plausible by fabrications, obscuring with recent designations the places which previously had names bestowed by the Spaniards, the first possessors and explorers, and now forgotten because the nations have given those that they have liked to the seas and lands which they reached, or imagined they reached. The great mischief resulting from these causes was observed by Antonio Herrera*[Arredondo note * Historia General de las Indias, Decada 1*, Libro 5°, capitulo 51.] and afterwards by John Bacon.t[Arredondo note t In the Notes a la Introduction de la Geografia de Culberio, Libro 6°, Capltulo 12°, Folio 504: Cum Hispani alia, et GaUi [alia] hisce, locis indideruni nomina, magna, reperitur, in tabulis Geographisis discrepantia.] 38. [Bolton note: The transcript reads "Bacon," but Barcia, whom Arredondo is following, gives "Juan Bunon," (Barcia, "Introduction," folio 1.)]