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SA Gov. Horruytiner opened skin and naval supplies trade between Havana and San Marcos
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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There was a modest boom in production. Governor Luis de Horruytiner (1633-1638), whose family elected to remain in Florida, may have begun land grants in the provinces. He was the one who opened trade between Havana and the port of San Marcos in Apalache, the newest and richest province. Trading vessels began to call at the port of San Martin, four leagues up the Suwannee, and at other rivers on the Gulf coast. (Governor Luis de Horruytiner, June 24, 1637; Thos Menendez Marquez and Joachin de Florencia to Governor Torres y Ayala, April 15, 1697.) [Note: Havana and San Marcos were only a week's sail apart according to Joseph de Prado and Juan Menendez Marquez II, September 22, 1667.) (Bushnell MM)
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