[893] Juan de la Vandera, Memoir,—in English in Historical Magazine, 1860, pp. 230-232, with notes by J. G. Shea, from the original in Coleccion de documentos inéditos, iv. 560-566, and in Buckingham Smith’s Coleccion. There is also a version in B. F. French’s Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida (1875), p. 289.
[894] Letter of Menendez, October 15, 1566, in Alcazar, Chrono. historia de la Compañía de Jesus en la provincia de Toledo (Madrid, 1710), vol. ii. dec. iii. año vi. cap. iii., translated by Dr. D. G. Brinton in the Historical Magazine, 1861, p. 292.
[895] Barcia, Ensaio cronológico, p. 133.
[896] La Reprise de la Floride, etc. Garibay says briefly that they went to Florida and destroyed and carried off the artillery of San Mateo, and then menaced Havana (Sucesos de la Isla de Santo Domingo).
[897] Parecer que da á S. M. la Audiencia de Nueva España, Jan. 19, 1569. The fort at San Mateo was not immediately restored; a new fort, San Pedro, was established at Tacatacuru (Coleccion de documentos inéditos, xii. 307-308). Stephen de las Alas in 1570 withdrew the garrisons, except fifty men in each fort,—a step which led to official investigation (Ibid., xii. 309, etc.).
[898] Barcia, Ensaio cronológico, pp. 137-146. For the Jesuit mission in Florida, see Alegambe, Mortes illustres, pp. 44, etc.; Tanner, Societas militans, pp. 447-451; Letter of Rogel, Dec. 9, 1570, in the Chrono. historia de la Compañia de Jesus en la Provincia de Toledo, by Alcazar (Madrid, 1710), ii. 145, translated by Dr. D. G. Brinton in the Historical Magazine, 1861, p. 327, and chap. v. of his Floridian Peninsula; Letter of Rogel, Dec. 2, 1569, MS.; one of Dec. 11, 1569, in Coleccion de documentos inéditos, xii. 301; one of Quiros and Segura from Axacan, Sept. 12, 1570; Sacchini, Historia Societatis Jesu, part iii., pp. 86, etc.
[Dr. Shea, in 1846, published a paper in the United States Catholic Magazine, v. 604 (translated into German in Die Katolische Kirche in den V. S. von Nordamerika, Regensburg, 1864, pp. 202-209), on the Segura mission; and another in 1859 in the Historical Magazine, iii. 268, on the Spanish in the Chesapeake from 1566 to 1573; and his account of a temporary Spanish settlement on the Rappahannock in 1570 is given in Beach’s Indian Miscellany, or the “Log Chapel on the Rappahannock” in the Catholic World, March, 1875. Cf. present History, Vol. III. p. 167, and a paper on the “Early Indian History of the Susquehanna,” by A. L. Guss, in the Historical Register; Notes and Queries relating to the Interior of Pennsylvania, 1883, p. 115 et seq. De Witt Clinton, in a Memoir on the Antiquities of the Western Parts of New York, published at Albany in 1820, expressed an opinion that traces of Spanish penetration as far as Onondaga County, N. Y., were discoverable; but he omitted this statement in his second edition. Cf. Sabin, vol. iv. no. 13,718.—Ed.]
[899] This officer, Fairbanks, in his misunderstanding of Spanish and Spanish authorities, transforms into Marquis of Menendez!
[900] Barcia, Ensayo cronológico, pp. 146-151.
[901] Historia general de las Indias (ed. 1601), dec. i. lib. ix. cap. 10-12, p. 303 (313).