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Jospogue lost his family defending SA against enemy Indians

Source: Runaways, Renegades, and St. Augustine's Towns People #113

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[Francisco Jospogue said in his 1728 petition] “I led my men and taught them to handle firearms and led them into a number of fights. In the early morning of November 1, 1715, enemy pagan Indians (meaning English-allied Indians) descended upon St. Augustine seeking to burn the town. I was one of the first to take up arms to defend the city of Florida. Meanwhile, my family, defenseless while the men were away from the village, were captured. The raiders separated the strong Indians at knifepoint, then gathered up the women and children to conduct them away to be sold as slaves in other lands at a great distance. I and other chiefs banded together to offer food and other things to ransom our captured families. Three times the English offered to return my family in exchange for my allying with the English and abandoning Catholcism. Three times I refused. I believe that my wife and four children were dispersed, and separately they perished in foreign lands. Over the next few years I headed the village of Our Lady of Candelaria . I had 46 adults and 23 children under my care, all heathens, but one."
(Parker RR)