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ORDERS REGARDING THE PROVINCE OF GUALE-14
Source: The Struggle for the Georgia Coast #129
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ORDER 13: HITA SALAZAR TO ESTEBEDES DE CARMENATIS, MAY 23, 1680 The following order was issued within a week of Order 15 (see below), and relates to the planned counterattack against the raiders on Guadalquini and Santa Catalina. As noted in Order 17, Captain Nicolas Estebedes de Carmenatis was to be sent by land with troops to reinforce Captain Juan Saturnino de Abaurrea and Captain Fuentes, the Guale lieutenant, in the village of Sapala. There he was instructed to remain at the command of the lieutenant in any future actions. [f.39] Order so that Captain Nicolas Estebedes de Carmenatis passes to the province of Guale to join with its lieutenant, year of 1680. Don Pablo de Hita Salazar, governor and captain general of this city, presidio, and provinces of St. Augustine, Florida, for His Majesty. For the present I order Captain Nicolas Estebedes de Carmenatis that as soon as he receives this my order, he should go with all speed to the province of Guale with the infantry that are assigned to him, to the town of Sapala, or the place where Captain Francisco de Fuentes, my lieutenant, justicia mayor, and captain at war in the said province happens to be, where having arrived, he will turn over to him the said infantry which is in his charge, and he will be under his command in all which [f.39, vto.] happens in the service of His Majesty and in the defense against the enemies who find themselves entrenched in the place of Cofunufo,(46) NOTE 46. During the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Cofunufo was the name for the Bar between St. Catherines Island and Ossabaw Island, now known as St. Catherines Sound. Later that same year, however, Fuentes described the location of Cofunufo as being a defensible position only one league north of mission Santa Catalina, at the same time referring to modern St. Cathernines sound as the Bar of Azopo (as it appeared on a later Spanish map). Governor Hita Salazar must have had reports that the English-sponsored Indians were entrenched in the site of Cofunufo (see Overview). or any other place in the said province, endeavoring to give his opinion and conference in all that which they will find to be most suitable to the service of God and of the King, and to the conservation of these provinces, which is thus suitable to the service of His Majesty. Given in St. Augustine, Florida, on the twenty-third of May, sixteen eighty, Pablo de Hita Salazar. And take the copy of this my order in the governmental secretary's office of these provinces. Paraph. By order of the governor and captain general, my lord, Francisco Lopez de Medrano, his secretary. Agrees with its original, which was turned over to the contained for its execution. I swear, Alonso Solana, public and governmental notary. Agrees with the order previously inserted, according to how the copy is taken in one of the governmental books in the archive at my charge, to which I refer. And by verbal order of the senor Colonel Don Manuel de Montiano, governor and captain general of this post and its provinces, I give the present in Florida on the fifth ofAugust, seventeen thirty-nine. In true testimony, Francisco de Castilla Governmental Notary
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