Francisco de Garay
Francisco de Garay (1475 in
Early life
Garay was born in the Garay tower in
Jamaica
From 1514 to 1523, Garay served as Royal Governor of
Expeditions
Garay sent several expeditions to explore, map and claim lands along the shores of what is now the Gulf of Mexico from present day Florida to Mexico. In 1519 Garay sent an expedition under Alonso Álvarez de Pineda to map the coast between Florida and the northern limit of the lands visited by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar.[7]: 132–133 The Mississippi River was shown on the maps as Rio del Espiritu Santo (River of the Holy Spirit).
In 1523, Garay led a 600-man expedition to found a colony on the
Garay's efforts to found a colony led him into legal conflict with Hernán Cortés.
While in Mexico City negotiating with Cortés, he became ill and died on December 27, 1523.[9]
References
- ^ Weddle 2016.
- ^ a b Chipman, Donald E., Nuno de Guzman and the Province of Panuco in New Spain, 1518-1533. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1967. p. 46
- ^ Floyd 1973.
- ^ "Goyo Bañales repasa la trayectoria Francisco de Garay". 20 October 2011.
- ^ In his "Memorial de Remedios para las Indias", Las casas accused de Garay, writing:"En Jamaica es asimismo necesario que vuestra reverendísima señoria mande deshacer una compañia que tiene hecha S. A. con uno que allí fue que se llama Francisco de Garay la cual es en gran diminución de los indios: porque no podrá ser sino que por aprovechar o dejar de aprovechar de S.A. ha de aprovechar asi . y no puede ser sin matar muchos indios especialmente que dicen que lleva licencia para sacallos de la dicha isla y traellos a la de Cuba a coger oro. y luego son muertos desta y de otras maneras que allí sucederán."
- ^ Baptiste, Victor N. 1990 Bartolomé de Las Casas and Thomas More's Utopia. p. 27 note m.
- ISBN 0140441239
- ^ Salinas, Martin Indians of the Rio Grande Delta Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990, pp. 23, 73
- ^ Weddle 1985, p. 142.
Bibliography
- Floyd, Troy (1973). The Columbus Dynasty in the Caribbean, 1492-1526. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 4, 32, 73, 109–110, 130–138, 164. ISBN 0826302831.
- Eugenio Del Hoyo; Historia del El Nuevo Reino De Leon (1577-1723)
- Weddle, Robert S. (1985). Spanish Sea : The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery : 1500-1685. College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-211-1.
- Weddle, Robert S. (2016) [1952]. "Garay, Francisco de". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).