The History of Puerto Rico - From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation by R.A. Van Middeldyk
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To Juan Ponce de Leon...................................... 200 To Christopher Soto Mayor[15]...............................100 To Vicente Yañez Pinzón, on condition that he should settle in the island.............................................. 100 To Lope de Conchillos, King Ferdinand's Chief Secretary, as bad a character as Pasamonte............................ 100 To Pedro Moreno and Jerome of Brussels, the delegate and clerk of Conchillos in Boriquén, 100 each...................200 To the bachelor-at-law Villalobos........................... 80 To Francisco Alvarado.......................................80 A total of 1,060 defenseless Indians delivered into the ruthless hands of men steeped in greed, ambition, and selfishness. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 10: The scanty remains of the first settlement were to be seen till lately in the Pueblo Viejo Ward, municipal district of Bayamón, along the road which loads from Cataño to Gurabó.] [Footnote 11: He may have been the tenth or the twentieth if what the |
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