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La Chua carried on illegal trade
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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Although the majority of Florida's products went out through San Martin and other Gulf ports, all imports for trade or resale were supposed to arrive by way of St. Augustine, where there was a customs house. Don ThomAs claimed that his fragata was only used to bring in necessities for his household and his ranch. The Havana record of cargoes and destinations, however, shows otherwise. He was carrying on a profitable three-cornered trade: ranch products to Havana for rum, rum to Apalache for furs. (Diego de Pefialver Angulo, Havana, March 21, 1696, Thos Menendez Marquez, [April 15, 1697], and Thos Menendez Marquez and Joachin Florencia to Governor Torres y Ayala, April 15, 1697.) The entire Menendez clan were merchants and the sons of merchants. They could have written at the top of their ledgers, as did one Renaissance entrepreneur: "In the name of God and of profit." (Bushnell MM)
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