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This mission was 20 leagues from St. Augustine, evidently that 
called Antonico in the Fresh Water district, and the governor 
entrusted these Yamasee at first to the care of Fray Bartholome 
de Quinones, Padre and Doctrinero del Pueblo de Maiaca, 
which was 16 leagues beyond. These Yamasee explain why the 
station of San Antonio is called a "new conversion" in the mis- 
sion list of 1680, although it existed at a very much earlier period 
as a Timucua mission. 1 The application of the term "infidels" to 
them is significant; had they been from the coast district of Guale 
they would in all probability have been Christianized by this time. 
The name Nombre de Dios de Amacarisse, which also occurs in the 
mission list of 1680, indicates still another body of Yamasee in that 
old station. 1 Fairbanks calls it Macarisqui and speaks of it as the 
principal town. 2 Barcia 3 spells it Mascarasi and says it was within 
600 yards (varas) of St. Augustine, which would agree with the known 
situation of Nombre de Dios. The next we hear of them the Yamasee 
have taken the lead among those Indians which sought refuge near 
the English colony of Carolina and they became so prominent that 
the English do not appear to have been aware that any other In- 
dians accompanied them. 
In a letter to the Spanish monarch, dated London, October 20, 
1734, Fray Joseph Ramos Escudero seems to attribute their primacy 
to encouragement given the Yamasee by the English and the sup- 
plies of clothing and arms with which they provided them. 4 
In the copy of this letter made by Miss Brooks the name of the 
tribe is consistently spelled Llamapas, but there can be no question 
regarding its identity. The original Y has been transposed into a 
double I and the old style ss into p. Escudero explains their removal 
from the Spanish colony by saying that these Yamasee "had a grudge 
against a certain governor of Florida on account of having ill treated 
their chief by words and deeds, because the latter, owing to the 
sickness of his superior, had failed one year to send to the city of 
St. Augustine, Florida, a certain number of men for the cultivation 
of the lands as he was obliged to do." 
Another account of the rebellion is given by Barcia. Referring to 
the colony of South Carolina, he says: 
Some Indians fled to this province because the English who occupied it had per- 
suaded them to give them obedience, instead of to the king; especially the chief of the 
Iamacos, a nation which lived in the province of Guale, becoming offended at the 
governor, without being placated by the strong persuasions and repeated kindnesses 
which the Franciscan missionaries showed to him in the year 1684, for despising all 
iLowery, MSS. 
2 G. R. Fairbanks, Hist, of St. Augustine, p. 125. The name of this town helps explain the later 
"Yamacraw." (See p. 108.) 
3 Barcia, La Florida, p. 240. 
• Brooks, MSS. 
