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Menendez Marquez ranches were offered to pay debts to a NY supplier
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 earliest property map marking the ranches of the interior was made in 1763 when Florida was transferred to the British after the Seven Years War. It indicates the lands offered in payment of debts owed to William Walton of New York, who had been supplying the colony for years. Eight square-shaped ranches were located west of the St. Johns River, with a combined territory of 258 square leagues. Five of these ranches, totalling two-thirds of the land, belonged to the Menendez Marquez family, who claimed to have inherited this princely property from their ancestor, Pedro Menendez de Aviles. (Will and probate report of July 3, 1743.) [Note: The five Menendez Marquez ranches shown were Tococruz, Abosaya, Acuitasigue, la Rosa del Diablo and la Chua. La Chua proper was only twenty-five square leagues, but most of the other ranches were contiguous to it, and there was a large unclaimed expanse to the south.] If this were true, it would demonstrate an amazing continuity of landholding in Spanish Florida. (Bushnell MM)
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