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SURRUQUE, HORRUQUE, OR SURRECHE 



A small tribe about Cape Canaveral on the east coast of Florida. 

 This is evidently the Serrope mentioned by Laudonniere and Le 

 Moyne, who place it on an island in a large inland lake, but the 

 island was probably one of those in the coastal lagoons, not in Lake 

 Okeechobee as has sometimes been assumed. In 1597 there was a 

 short war between these people and the Spaniards, which consisted 

 mainly in a surprise attack upon one of the Surruque towns in which 

 60 persons were killed and 54 captured. Nothing further is heard 

 regarding them and they probably partook of the fortunes of the 

 other Timucua towns and tribes. 



Surruque population. — Unknown. 



TACATACURU 



This was the Timucua name of Cumberland Island on the Georgia 

 coast and of the tribe occupying it. It was visited by the French 

 under Ribault and Laudonniere and later by Menendez de Aviles. 

 The Spaniards named the island San Pedro, and the Franciscans 

 established there in 1587 the Mission of San Pedro Mocama on the 

 southwest coast of the island, 2 leagues from the Barra of San 

 Pedro. In 1597 the chief of this province, called Don Juan by the 

 Spaniards, repulsed the Guale Indians after they had destroyed the 

 missions in their country and were advancing south. Through an 

 early document it is surprising to learn that this chief desired to 

 become "mico mayor" of Guale, although the people of that province 

 were alien in speech. He died on June 16, 1600, and was succeeded by 

 his sister's daughter, in accordance with the custom of the country. 

 Under the San Pedro Mission were the following stations: Santo 

 Domingo on the island of Napoyca and Santa Maria de Sena on the 

 same island. In 1602 Fray Baltazar Lopez was stationed at San 

 Pedro. Pedro Ruiz seems to have been the missionary in 1604. In 

 1608 Governor Ibarra states that the church at San Pedro was as 

 big as that in St. Augustine, that it had cost the Indians 300 ducats, 

 and if they had not furnished most of the labor themselves, it would 

 have cost them 2,000 ducats. The name of this mission is wanting 

 in the mission list of 1655, and the chief of the Indians of San Pedro 

 does not appear as one of those concerned in the rebellion of 1656, 

 from which it would seem that the Mission of San Pedro was then 

 abandoned and the population withdrawn to other Timucua towns. 

 The later missions on Cumberland Island were occupied by Yamasee 

 and other Indians from the north. 



Tacatacuru population. — ^In 1602 Santo Domingo served 180 Chris- 

 tians and Santa Maria de Sena 112. About the same time Fray 

 Lopez reported 8 settlements and 792 Christian Indians. 



