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THE SPANISH INVASION OF CAROLINA (Mont 11)-5
Source: The Struggle for the Georgia Coast #129
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Declaration of Catalina, English In the stated city on the said day, month, and year stated above of the twenty-third of September, sixteen eighty-six, His Grace the senor Captain and Sergeant Major Don Juan Marquez Cabrera, governor and captain general [f.9, vto.] of this stated city and its provinces for His Majesty, commanded to appear before him Cathalina Havena, a Protestant, native of the province of Lincosno in the kingdom of Old England, who said her name thus and that she is native of the said kingdom, and who was sworn in, aware of her law, and required to tell the truth through the said interpreters Carlos Robson and Ricardo de la Cruz, and she promised to tell the truth, and the following questions and cross-examinations were asked of her: How long ago did she come from England? She said that it was twelve years ago that they brought her, a deceived girl, to Providence, where they sold her,(33) NOTE 33. The English girl was evidently sold at the age of seven into indentured servitude in 1674 in the English colony of New Providence in the Bahamas, and from the tone of her testimony held little regard for her English masters (and thus might even have willingly gone with the Spaniards). and that she remained there until two years ago when the Spaniards depopulated it,(34) NOTE 34. Known to have been a haven for pirates, New Providence was first assaulted by Spanish forces from Cuba in January 1684, and completely destroyed in a second assault later that year, perhaps in August (Craton, 1962: 75-76). Most of the survivors fled to Jamaica, although a few ended up in Massachusetts and, as is evident here, Charles Town. and she came with her owner to San Jorje and was there about eight days, and her owner having sold her, they brought her to the Island of Santa Elena with other existing [?] English to a plantation [plantaje] of her owner, master Gombre,(35) NOTE 35. The name Gombre from the Spanish text is undoubtedly that of Paul Grimball, Governor Morton's secretary, whose plantation was one of the two sacked by Leon's expedition. Catherine ("Keate") was the only servant mentioned on Paul Grimball's list of losses due to the Spanish raid (Grimball, 1689). where the Spaniards captured her. She was asked if she has known that it is said in San Jorje that they are going to come to this presidio in order to take it, and if there are in that place of the said San Jorje clothes, ships, or prisoners from the ports of the Spaniards. She said that she only knows, by having heard it said, that in San Jorje there are some blacks and slaves from when they sacked Vera Cruz and Campeche, which were brought to San Jorje by some corsair ships to sell, but she has not seen them, having always been on the said plantation, and she does not know anything else about what the question refers to, and this is the truth and what she knows, and she is of the age of nineteen years. She did not sign, not knowing how to. His Grace and one of the said interpreters signed it. Carlos Robson Juan Marquez Cabrera Before me, Alonso Solana Public and Governmental Notary [f.101
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