Conflict in San Carlos: Indian Immigrants in Eighteenth-Century New Spain

From April, 1763, to February, 1764, immediately following the British takeover of Florida, eighty-nine Christianized Yamasee and five Apalache Indians voluntarily migrated to New Spain to the vicinity of modern Veracruz, Mexico. Details of their migration and of the beginnings of their new village,...

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Published in:Ethnohistory 1970-01, Vol.17 (1/2), p.1-10
Main Author: Gold, Robert L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communities
Deer hunting
Exile
Governors
Mayors
Merchants
Proprietors
Religious buildings
Subsistence hunting
Viceroys
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Summary:From April, 1763, to February, 1764, immediately following the British takeover of Florida, eighty-nine Christianized Yamasee and five Apalache Indians voluntarily migrated to New Spain to the vicinity of modern Veracruz, Mexico. Details of their migration and of the beginnings of their new village, San Carlos de Chachalacas, are presented. This colony of Indian migrants remained extant at least until 1774.
ISSN:0014-1801
1527-5477