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Updated: 5 Sep 2017
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Five friars were murdered in the Guale rebellion year 1597
and northern missions were left alone completely.Northern missions were allowed after seven
years of being abandoned.Depopulation combined with
widespread forced resettlements.Depopulation combined with widespread
forced resettlements ended.Devastating raid began on Santo Domingo de
Talaje mission at the mouth of the Altamaha.
There were armed slave-raids by Indians allied
with the English.The raids finally came to an end and resulted in
a retreat of coastal missions to the barrier
islands.A final pirate raid in October left Georgia's
remaining missions in the ruins ending the
mission period in this state.All remaining missions across Spanish Florida
had retreated to St. Augustine by the summer of
1706.The surviving descendants of Georgia's Guale
and Mocama missions were among the eighty-
nine Indians who chose to evacuate Florida with
the Spanish in 1763, relocating permanently to
Cuba.
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