Charlevoix mentions another son called Diego, and calls one of the daughters Phillipine. Spotorno says that the daughter Maria took the veil; confounding her with a niece. These are trivial errors, merely noticed to avoid the imputation of inaccuracy. The account of the descendants of Columbus here given, accords with a genealogical tree of the family, produced before the council of the Indies, in a great lawsuit for the estates.
[260]: Herrern, decad. iv. lib. ii. cap. 6.
[261]: Charlevoix, Hist. St. Doming., lib. vi. p. 443.
[262]: Idem, tom. i. lib. vi. p. 446.
[263]: Spotorno, Hist. Colom., p. 123.
[264]: Bossi, Hist. Colom. Dissert., p. 67.
[265]: Idem, Dissert. on the Country of Columbus, p. 03.
[266]: Bossi, Dissertation on the Country of Columbus.
[267]: Spotorno, p. 127.
[268]: Literally, in the original, Cazador de Volateria, a Falconer. Hawking was in those days an amusement of the highest classes; and to keep hawks was almost a sign of nobility.