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Title: The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
Subjects: Catholic Church Catholic Church
Publisher: New York : J.G. Shea
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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great Cacique ofthe Carlos Keys sent his son, the heathen Indians of YasisaHiver asked for missionaries, and Franciscans were sent toseveral of the Chiistian towns. A better feehng soon pre-vailed throughout the peninsula, and there are extant let-ters to the King of Spain, one written by the Apalachechiefs, and the other by those of the Timuquan nation,^expressing their satisfaction with the missionaries and thegoveinor. The documents are curious as evidence that the chiefs inSpanisli Florida, at that time, were able to write their names. Don Matheo Chuba; Chief Juan Mendoza ; Don Bentura, Chief ofIbitachuco ; Don Alonso Pastrana, Chief of Pattali; Don Patricio, Chiefof Santa Cruz ; Don Ignacio, Chief of Tulpatqui. - Don Francisco, Chief of San Matheo ; Don Pedro, Chief of San Pe-dro ; Don Bentura, Chief of Asile; Don Diego, Chief of Machaua ;Gregorio, Chief of San Juan de Guacara; Francisco Martinez. Fac-similes of the signatures are given at page 180. The word holahta means Chief.
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VISITATION BY DON JUAN FERRO MACHADO. 181 Ecports of Indian discontent, and appeals for better eccle-siastical government in Florida, induced tlie King of Spain,in 1687, to direct J;lie newlj appointed Bishop of Cnba, DonDiego Evelino de Compostela, to dispatch all urgent businessas soon as j^ossible after reaching his diocese, and then pro-ceed to the provinces of Florida and make a complete visi-tation. Finding, however, that the affairs of Cuba would re-quire his attention for a considerable time, the bishop (Jan-uary T, 1688) appointed a learned Cuban priest, the BachelorDon Juan Ferro Machado, his visitor-general of the provincesof Florida. Br. Ferro Machado proceeded to Florida at hisown expense, with his secretary, Bachelor Joseph ManuelAleman y Hurtado, and was received at St. Augustine, as thebishops representative, by Rev. Joseph Perez de la Mota, theparish priest and vicar; but the Franciscan Fathers wouldnot permit him to make a visitation of their houses and mis-sions, as

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