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Menendez Marquez children's guardian got rich illegally
Source: The Menendez Marquez Cattle Barony at La Chua and the Determinants of Economic Expansion in Seventeenth-Century Florida #163
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It is not clear how capital was supposed to be accumulated legitimately in Spanish Florida. Perhaps there was no way. Alonso Menendez y Posada, the young uncle and guardian of Francisco's children, was engaged in many disreputable political and economic activities during the 1650s. Although never a royal official himself, Alonso was favored by Governor Pedro Benedit Horruytiner (1651-1654) and Governor Rebolledo (1654-1659). His involvement with retail trade, ambergris smuggling, and rigged elections may have accounted for some of the capital which became available in the 1660s.(Petition of Menendez Marquez orphans, Madrid, June 30, 1630; Po Beltran Santa Cruz, November 20, 1655; Anonymous, November 20, 1655; Stos Heras and Domgo Leturiondo, October 8, 1657; Governor Rebolledo, October 10, 1657; Po Benedit Horruytiner, November 10, 1657.) Certainly little funds were coming from the Crown. (Bushnell MM)
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