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Epidemic killed half of the Spanish mission population
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 1614 an epidemic struck, and within four years at least one half of the Christian mission population had died. Soldiers began referring to Florida as an "uninhabited land." (Fr. Francisco Pareja et al., January 14, 1617.) (Bushnell MM)
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