Francisco Córcoles y Martinez in a letter to his Majesty reports all possible measures taken to prevent the destroying of this Province--Indians from the villages bordering on the Carolinas, aided by the English, each day carry off certain families, Christians and natives, more than ten thousand having been carried off to date--Probably sold into slavery--A Treaty urged with the English of the Carolinas, else there will be a continuance of hostilities and the spread of the Gospel impeded--In a second letter the Governor gives an account of certain Friars in a dispute with the Priest of the Parish concerning the rights to marry soldiers, Spaniards, Indians and half-breeds--The matter laid before the Governor, who in turn refers it to his Majesty--Recommends the abolishing of all Heathen customs--By a Royal dispatch, A. D. 1721, the Governor of Florida is commanded to go in person to the Governor of the Carolinas and arrange with him a Treaty of Peace between the English and Spanish of those Provinces adjoining--Which same was carried out as far as possible--Trinkets and clothing sent to the Casiques and chiefs of Apalachicola as commanded--Indians restless making preparations for war--English spreading dissatisfaction--A Council of war decides to send a vessel to Havana to the Governor asking for men, arms and provisions.
Governor Señor Montiano in a letter to his Majesty says: It is reported that Don Diego Oglethorpe has said openly “that should he receive orders from his Government to fix the boundary lines between the Spanish possessions and the Carolinas, he would so delay its execution that there should never be a sign of these limits”--Montiano thinks “it will be impossible to ever discuss matters of importance with such a man and it will be best that he be removed”--An Indian, Juan Ygnacio de las Reyes, gives himself up to the English, under pretext of having killed an Indian, to gain information concerning the strength and intentions of the English toward the Spanish--After misleading the English as to the strength and numbers in the Spanish fortifications, he makes his escape and returns to this Province--Statement of what has been ordered for the aid of Florida Provinces--The dislodging of the enemy from certain settlements on its territory up to 1674--Dispatch of 1675 commands that if the negro slaves sent to Havana have not already been sold, they shall be sent to Florida to be put to work upon the construction of the Castle to relieve the Indians.