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Rodriguez house was burned to prevent English occupation
Source: Runaways, Renegades, and St. Augustine's Towns People #113
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Gerónima [Rodr¡guez], daughter of Gertrudis, [lived her whole life in the in the house where she] had been born and where her parents had lived. The house was probably new when she was born or built soon after her birth, its predecessor destroyed in the English siege of 1702. Buildings in this area lay within the range of musket fire (750 feet) of the Castillo and were burned by the Spanish themselves to deprive the English troops of cover and a place to shoot at Spanish soldiers on the gundeck of the fortress. Based on what we know of typical siege strategy, the Carolinians might have dug trenches through or very close to her property. (Parker RR)
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