Abstract
In the Sala de Cartografia of the State Museum of Jalisco (Mexico) in Guadalajara, exists a vellum map bearing the number 25. It is the entire hide of a small animal, drawn on in red, green and black. At the bottom is written the following:
“Carta reducida de la costa de Panzacola desde el cavo [sic] del norte, hasta el de S. Blas, corregida nuevamente, por D. Estevan de Ayarragaray, piloto de esta ensenada, y la dirige al exelmo Sor Marques de Cruillas, ***rrey de esta Nueva Espana, por orden del Sr. Diego Ortiz Parilla, governador del presidio de Panzacola. Veracruz, Marzo 9, 1762”.
This map precedes, then, by only a little the Spanish evacuation of Pensacola. It fell to this Colonel Ortiz Parilla to remove the inhabitants on the arrival of the British in July of the year following. 2 The Viceroy (Joaquin Monserrat) to whom the map is dedicated, had equally tough luck, being removed in 1766 by means of Jose de Galvez.
Recommended Citation
Barlow, R. H.
(1943)
"A Hitherto Unknown Map of the Pensacola Coastal Region, 1762,"
Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 22:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol22/iss1/5
