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The Menendez Marquez held the accountant and treasury positions for 135 years
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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The treasury office, Maria's dowry, was bequeathed with less trouble than the land. When Juan departed St. Augustine after twenty-seven years to become governor of Popayan in South America, he was able to leave his son Francisco as treasurer, a position which Francisco held for twenty-nine years. Then Francisco's sons by his first wife, a Cuban girl, purchased the office of accountant and also the right to succeed each other: first Juan II, then Antonio, and finally Thomas. The three brothers remained in office for a total of forty-two years. Thomas trained his own son, Francisco II, who served 37 years. Between 1593 and 1743, the year of Francisco II's death, the family had held one of the two offices of the royal treasury for a total of 135 years. [Note: The office of factor was subsumed into the others in several phases between 1624 and 1628.] (Bushnell MM)
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