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FRESH WATER ("agUA DULCE") INDIANS 



The name of "Agua Dulce" was applied by the Spaniards to the in- 

 habitants of a group of related Timucua towns along the lagoons south 

 of St. Augustine, Fla., the southernmost being on the upper course of 

 the St. Johns. In 1602 the following "Christian towns" are mentioned 

 in this province : San Sebastian, Moloa, Antonico, Tocoy, and San Ju- 

 lian. Later lists omit the first two, but add Filache, Equale or Toquale, 

 Anacape, and Maiaca, though Maiaca is not always included. The 

 native name of Antonico was perhaps Tunsa. Most of these names 

 disappear from the mission lists after 1606, but "San Antonio de 

 Enacape" is shown in a list made in 1616, and again in one of 1655, 

 along with "San Salvador de Mayaca," though both vanish at that time. 

 Ponce de Leon made his landfall on their coast in 1513 and the French 

 captain Ribault touched upon it in 1562 and 1564, but we hear little 

 of them until St. Augustine was founded in 1565, after which time 

 missionary work was extended to this province, and in 1655, as above 

 mentioned, there were two missions in the two southernmost towns, 

 San Antonio de Anacape, and San Salvador de Maiaca (or Macaya). 

 Maiaca is the only town mentioned very frequently. Fontaneda 

 speaks of it along with a sister settlement Maiajuaca, which' seems to 

 have been on the coast, and Maiaca also appears in the narratives of 

 Laudonniere and Le Moyne. By 1680 Maiaca had evidently been 

 abandoned by its original inhabitants as it is represented as "a new 

 conversion." This probably means that it was occupied by Yamasee 

 or Guale Indians, and that the population of the province was already 

 on the decline, a decline which continued, as we know, into the early 

 part of the eighteenth century when the entire Timucua nation 

 disappeared. 



Population of the Fresh Water Province. — There are no separate 

 figures for this province except that in the year 1602 the missionaries 

 reported 200 Christianized Indians there and 100 more "under 

 instruction." 



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In the De Crenay map of 1733 this unit appears on the south side 

 of Tallapoosa River, but it was later on the north side and the De 

 Crenay map may be in error. It is mentioned frequently until the 

 time of Hawkins, who has left a description of it as it existed in 

 1799. Some of these Indians reached Florida before 1778 and the 

 remainder followed after the Creek War. When the Seminole were 

 transplanted to the other side of the Mississippi, these people and 

 the Kan-hatki formed a single settlement under their name in the 

 southern part of the Seminole territory, but their Square Ground was 

 known as Thliwahali because it is said that it was organized by some 



