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The [[Florida]] priests built the mission Ajacan across the peninsula to the [[York River (Virginia)]]. By 1571, the Spanish presence on the Axacan were all massacred. Historians attribute it to either the [[Powhatan]] Confederacy or [[privateers]]. Poorly documented seafaring nationals were known to fish and trade at Norfolk Anchorage. Later in the 16th century, many pilots, as the ship's master (today's Captain) was called at that time, held [[England|English]] and [[French people|French]] [[Letter of marque]] to raid on Spanish Maine. English privateers had been sailing to the [[North America]]n coast since 1562, preying on Spanish shipping loaded with royal loot from the Spanish Maine, [[Gulf of Mexico]]. Their provision and repair anchorage was often at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay where the easterly North Atlantic current, just north of the "Sargasas Sea" (the [[seaweed]] "beds" and drift circling in the central North Atlantic), moves towards the [[Celtic Sea]] of Ireland and [[Bay of Biscay]] of norhthern [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]]. The Ajacan settlement monks were destroyed by the Native American Don Luis and his relatives, Virginia Indians. It remains unclear as to whom removed the Spanish presence at the region of Axacan. | The [[Florida]] priests built the mission Ajacan across the peninsula to the [[York River (Virginia)]]. By 1571, the Spanish presence on the Axacan were all massacred. Historians attribute it to either the [[Powhatan]] Confederacy or [[privateers]]. Poorly documented seafaring nationals were known to fish and trade at Norfolk Anchorage. Later in the 16th century, many pilots, as the ship's master (today's Captain) was called at that time, held [[England|English]] and [[French people|French]] [[Letter of marque]] to raid on Spanish Maine. English privateers had been sailing to the [[North America]]n coast since 1562, preying on Spanish shipping loaded with royal loot from the Spanish Maine, [[Gulf of Mexico]]. Their provision and repair anchorage was often at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay where the easterly North Atlantic current, just north of the "Sargasas Sea" (the [[seaweed]] "beds" and drift circling in the central North Atlantic), moves towards the [[Celtic Sea]] of Ireland and [[Bay of Biscay]] of norhthern [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]]. The Ajacan settlement monks were destroyed by the Native American Don Luis and his relatives, Virginia Indians. It remains unclear as to whom removed the Spanish presence at the region of Axacan. | ||
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Citation: Chesapeake Bay - The Mariners' Museum, online. | Citation: Chesapeake Bay - The Mariners' Museum, online. | ||
[[Category:Indigenous peoples of North America]] | [[Category:Indigenous peoples of North America]] | ||