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La Chua was terrorized into shutting down and it's owner died
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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With the provinces of Apalache and Guale lost to the enemy, the food source in Timucua became even more important to the Spanish. (Frco Florencia and Ju Pueyo, April 30, 1706.) The governor built a blockhouse at la Chua and placed overseer Juan Lorenzo de Castaneda in charge. Under Castaneda's direction, soldiers and ranchhands salted or dried meat for the garrison. It was dangerous work. One black ranch hand was captured by a raiding party and quartered. Twice the blockhouse was under fire. At other times, just beyond musket range the enemy leisurely slaughtered cattle and pigs, broke horses, and destroyed gardens. (Juan Benedit Horruytiner to Governor Corcoles y Martinez, n.p., April 18, 1706, and Governor Corcoles y Martinez, November 30, 1706.) Finally in 1706 the little force at la Chua burned their own blockhouse and retired to San Francisco. Later that year all the soldiers and Hispanic Indians in Timucua were withdrawn to St. Augustine. Old Don Thomas died in New Spain the same year his ranch was lost. (Dispatches from these Timucuan outposts between February 3, 1705, and October 9, 1705; Governor Corcoles y Martinez, September 30, 1706.) It had been an over-extension of Spanish resources to try to raise cattle in Potano. AN294 (Bushnell MM)
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