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More Indians defected from Mobile to the new Soledad-San Luis Apalache town

Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121

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Farther on [in Barcia] we find the following among the items for the same year:
July 13 two Topocapa Indians came to Santa Maria de Galve [Pensacola], who had fled from Movila on account of the bad treatment of the French. Don Juan Pedro sent them to the new town of the Indians of their nation [Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, and San Luis], which had been formed near the port of San Marcos de Apalache, because they were of a nation subject to the king, who had in their towns curates of the order of St. Francis of the province of Santa Elena, and all those who came in this manner he sent to the people of their own nation, entertained in accordance with their quality, from which they experienced great satisfaction."2
It would seem from this that Topocapa was an Apalachee town or else a tribe supposed to be connected with the Apalachee. 
The new settlement near the port of San Marcos de Apalache seems to have been founded after La Soledad, partly in order to cover a new Spanish post. It was close to Apalachee Bay and therefore on the skirts of the old Apalachee country. Further information regarding the settlement of this place is given in [Barcia 4/10/1719]:
(Swanton)