The New Alliance of History and Archaeology in the Eastern Spanish Borderlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3203057 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Gannon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 321 |
| Publication date | 1992-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2947275 |
| OpenAlex | W2332187384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
I N the immediate post-Columbian period Spanish navigators launched an ever-widening circle of discovery and settlement from bases in the Caribbean Sea. On one such voyage in I 526, Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon, a royal judge in Santo Domingo, Hispaniola, transported some 6oo settlers, including women, children, and an indeterminate number of African slaves, to a point somewhere on the lower Atlantic coast north of present-day Florida. There, on September 29, the Ayllon party began to construct a small town that they named San Miguel de Gualdape. The Spanish settlers were quickly overcome, however, by exhaustion, hunger, cold, disease, and slave rebellion. Within two months the colony was abandoned, and some I 5o half-famished survivors made their way by ship to various ports in the Antilles. Missing were many Africans who elected to stay behind and became, it could be argued, the first Old World settlers in what is now the United States. The literature about Ayllon and San Miguel is not large, and only a handful of modern historians have speculated about the geographical location of this lost colony.1 To Paul E. Hoffman it appears that the Ayllon party first landed at the South Santee River (the Spaniards' Rio Jordan) in South Carolina but, finding the area uninhabited, moved southwest some 40-45 leagues (3.2 nautical miles = i league) to the point where they founded San Miguel. Hoffman thinks that this site has to be
Alliance · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Archaeology and Natural History · Cuban History and Society · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2011 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |