Ayllón’s colony did not succeed, but his efforts contributed much to European interest in and knowledge of the southeastern coast of North America.
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Colonizer, explorer. The founder of the first Spanish town in the territory of what came to be the United States, Ayllón was born circa in Toledo, Spain, to Juan Vázquez de Ayllón and Inés de Villalobos. In Ayllón arrived in the Spanish colony of Hispaniola to serve as a district judge. He became a judge on the Caribbean region’s highest appeals court in Through these positions, Ayllón gained wealth and power. In he married Ana de Becerra, a member of a prominent Caribbean family. In addition to his service to the royal government, Ayllón owned estates and participated in trade and slaving ventures. On one of these expeditions, in , an Indian called “Francisco de Chicora” was captured. Francisco, who was from the coast of what later became South Carolina, became Ayllón’s slave and told the judge fantastic stories about his homeland. Whether or not Ayllón believed all of Francisco’s tales, he used them to inspire royal interest in the conquest of the southeastern coast of North America. In June Charles V grante
Lucas Vasques de Ayllon ()
A lawyer and nobleman from Spain, Lucas Vasques de Ayllon sponsored the first Spanish explorations (three total) of what became North Carolina. He also discovered Chesapeake Bay and established San Miguel de Guandape, a settlement near what would be Jamestown.
Ayllon sponsored three missions to the New World. In , he sent Francisco Gordillo to find a Northwest Passage. The Spaniard landed near the Cape Fear River and explored a land called Chicora (between the Cape Fear and Jamestown Island). In , Ayllon traveled to Chicora for his second mission, discovered the Chesapeake Bay, and offered a report to Charles V, who made the nobleman the lifetime governor of the land that he had explored. His last mission was in to
Ayllon and approximately to colonists (including three monks) sailed to the New World in a convoy of 6 ships. They landed near the Cape Fear River (which they called Rio Jordan), but decided to go to a more salubrious place. They went north and established San Miguel de Guandape. Disease, however, plagued the Spanish settlement, and the numbers dropped quickly to The dead included Ayllon.
Shortly afterward, Spaniards abandoned S
Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon
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Ayllon, LUCAS VASQUEZ DE, the Spanish discoverer of Chesapeake Bay, and the first of those daring navigators who tried to find a northwest passage from Europe to Asia, date of birth uncertain; d. October 18, He was a member of the Superior Council in San Domingo. He sent an expedition to Florida under Francisco Gordillo, who, in June, , landed in lat. 33° 30&#;, somewhere near Cape Fear in North Carolina. In quest of the northwest passage, Ayllon came up from Hispaniola in , and tried the James River and Chesapeake Bay. He received from Charles V a grant of the land he had discovered, and, in , founded the settlement of San Miguel de Guandape, not far from the site of the city of Jamestown, built by the English fully eighty years later. The employment of negro slaves in this work is perhaps the first instance of negro slave-labor within the present territory of the United States. Ayllon died of ship fever, and of the colony of souls he had brought with him only survivors made their way back to Hispaniola.
EDWARD P. SPILLANE
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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, born in Toledo (Spain) in , was a oidor of the Royal Court of Santo Domingo (founded in ) and a sugar courier on the Hispaniola island. He traded with slaves and pearls that he obtained by financing expeditions to the coasts of the pearls in the north of present-day Venezuela and the Lucayas Islands (Bahamas Islands). One of his most well-known facts was the attempt to negotiate between Hernán Cortés and Pánfilo de Narváez, sent by the governor of Cuba Diego de Velázquez, in Veracruz to reach an agreement and avoid the confrontation between Castilian troops but it was unsuccessful and the struggle took place by defeating Cortés and taking Narváez prisoner. Most of his troops joined the Extremaduran army. Vázquez de Ayllón, once proven the advances of Cortés in the Aztec empire and the possibilities that it represented for the Spanish crown faced Narváez and gave the reason before Diego Velázquez to Cortés.
As he said, Vázquez de Ayllón captured Indians against the Spanish colonization to enslave them because t
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