Appendix D

Antonio de Landeche's Power of Attorney, March 15, 1706, AGI Mexico 633

Power of Attorney: In the New City of Veracruz on the 15th of March of 1706, before me, the notary and witnesses, [appeared] the Señor Don Antonio de Landeche, Governor of the third of the Royal Windward Fleet which he is Admiral and second in command of, and he said that inasmuch as he had departed from this port by order of the Most Excellent Señor Viceroy Duke of Alburquerque in the frigate named the Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Santiago Apostol, to convey and transport the aids that were being made to the Presidios of Santa Maria de Galve, San Augustin de la Florida and San Christoval de la Havana, he made voyage in May of the year just past of 1705 and arrived safely and departed from said port of Havana for the referred to one of Santa Maria de Galve for a second time according to the order that he carried from said Most Excellent Señor. Having anchored and tied up in it on the 2nd day of September with the necessary cables, on the 4th [of September], a storm struck him which was such that no actions were sufficient and despite how much he had tried to do, the said frigate was lost in said port, opening up in the middle. As a result he was not able to continue his return voyage to this port as he reported to the said Most Excellent Señor, who with his great and zealous providence, supplied them by sending two ships so that they would be able to return to this port as was done. Further, because afterward he had arrived here, this grantor (otrogante) was legally noticed and made to know that through his attorney, he should appeal to the its Superior Government to receive notification and save himself from the charges that had been made against him by His Majesty's Fiscal upon said loss, assuming that he was culpable in it. Therefore, so that there is a person that in his name defends him and satisfies the charges that have been made and might be made, he newly grants that he gives all his complete power which is required by law and is necessary, to the Captain Don Juan Miguel de Vertiz, vecino of the City of Mexico, especially, so that in his name and representing his person, he can appear before the grandeur of said Most Excellent Señor and in his Superior Government and where it shall be appropriate and defends him with all arguments, ways and judgments from the charges and chapters (capitulos) that have been made and might be newly made against him by the said His Majesty's Fiscal, hearing the notifications of charges and making the pleas and defenses necessary until the charges are overcome and he is found not guilty of all of them, declaring him innocent of these and a good minister and executor of the orders of his superiors. As a result, he must make and present all the petitions, summons (requerimientos), protests, contradictions, executions, bonds (prisones), releases (solturas), attachments (embargos), lifting of attachments (desembargos), sales and auctions of furniture and household goods (bienes), taking of possession and confiscation presente, writings, legal instruments (escrituras), witnesses, papers and messages and all types of proof that he asks for and draws out from that power [of attorney]. Thus, he hears autos and judgments and interlocutory decrees and final decrees. The favorable ones he will accept and the contrary one, he will appeal and supplicate that the law is followed or not as it appears to him, he asks for a conclusion or he renounces it if it is offered and of whatever bonds and…commands, Royal Provisions and other dispatches that he presents and asks for their compliance and testimony and finally makes all the rest of the petitions, autos and diligences that judicially and extrajudicially are appropriate until he is found free and clear (esentos) of the charges referred to. That for all that is said and its dependence, he gives him this power with free and general administration and faculties of prosecuting (enjuiciar), swearing in (jurar) and standing in for (sobstituir), revoking substitutes and naming others and to all I release according to law, to which steadfastness and compliance I bind his person and goods, present and future (havido y por haver) so that he is bound to it as to a sentence passed on in a final judgment and thus, I grant it and I sign it. Being witnesses: Antonio de Vega, Juan de Estanziaga and Juan Eugenio de Viana = Antonio de Landeche.

Before me, Don Miguel de Horrue, Royal Notary.

List of Figures.


Figure 1. Pensacola Bay, 1698. Source: Arriola 1698.

Figure 2. Eighteenth-Century Veracruz. Source: Bois 1798.

Figure 3. Eighteenth Century Spanish Frigate. Source: La Victoria 1719-1756.

Figure 4. Northern Gulf Coast, 1747. Source: Debarz 1747.

Figure 5. Fort Construction at Early Pensacola. Source: Edwards 2000.

Figure 6. Offloading Supplies at Pensacola. Source: Edwards 2000.

Figure 7. Driving Cattle to Pensacola: Source: Edwards 2000.

Figure 8. Apalachee Bay and San Luis, 1705. Source: Landeche.

Figure 9. Apalachee Mission Province, 1683. Source: Solana, 1683.