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Francisco Menendez Marquez III's will claimed inheritance of Pedro Menendez's land grant
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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In the will of Francisco, last of the direct line to hold office in the treasury, there was an echo of the original promise to Pedro Menendez. Francisco stated that the cattle hacienda de la Chua, 25 square leagues, had been given to his ancestors in perpetuity by grace of the King. Even though it had been lost in the time of his father during the enemy invasion and the Indian uprising, the family possessed legal title to the land if it was ever reclaimed. [Note: Charles Arnade a transcript of this will, dated September 2, 1742.] There was little chance of that. The fortunes of the Menendez Marquez family were those of Spanish Florida, and for both of them the Golden Age was over. (Bushnell MM) AN495
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