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Guale Indians became rebellious over Cabrera's efforts to move them

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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CHAPTER V CONCERNING WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SPANIARDS IN THEIR DOMINIONS ON THE CONTINENT OF FLORIDA AFTER THE TREATY OF 1670, CAUSING THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE SETTLEMENTS SITUATED NORTH OF SAN Agustin, THE ACCOUNT OF WHICH PROVES WHAT POSSESSIONS THEY HELD IN THAT YEAR."

1. Uprising of the Indians:* [Arredondo note * Cardenas, Decada 18*.] In 1680 the provinces of Spanish Florida, which, by virtue of the treaty of 1670 will be so-called, to distinguish it from English Florida, 44. [Bolton note: Meaning Carolina, Virginia, etc.] were governed by Don Juan Marques Cabrera. At that time some Indians from the settlements of San Felipe in Santa Elena, San Simón in Guale, Santa Catharina, Sapala, Gualquini, and Vejezes, 45. began to show signs of discontent with Spanish rule and a lack of respect for their superiors, being incited by the English of South Carolina, from whose proximity nothing else could be expected, as will be seen. For, despising the counsels of the missionary instructors, and stubborn in their disaffection, little by little they became rebellious. On the false pretext that the governor mentioned had proposed to move them to the islands of Santa Maria, San Juan, and Santa Cruz, a plan to which they were opposed, some of them went over to the provinces of the English. 46.
 [Bolton note: The reference here is to Cabrera's efforts in 1684-5 to remove the Indians southward. Santa Maria, San Juan, and Santa Cruz mentioned in this paragraph, correspond today to Amelia Island, Talbot Island, and the coastland to the southward. See Introduction, pp. 39-41.]

This act justifies the well founded uneasiness of the Spaniards at the proximity of that nation. For if it were true that the Indians loved their habitations so much that they did not like to leave them, the same reason would exist to keep them from going to that of the English, and there would be no reason after their desertion to commit the many hostilities which they perpetrated against the Spaniards, and against Indians, their allies of Santa Elena, and which compelled the governor, in order to prevent them, to abandon this settlement in the year 1686. 47.