Description
In this page from a letter in the archives in Seville, Spain, expenses are justified for a trip byAntonio Velázquez, captain of the Santa Catalina, who on a trip to America picked up, or possibly kidnapped, two Virginia Indians.Velázquez sought additional expenses for clothing and travel for the Indians. This particular page is important because it contains a notation of one of the Indians names: Paquiquineo. (The scholar Camilla Townsend has highlighted it in yellow.) Citation: Archivo General de Indias, Contaduria 286, no. 1, Datas, September 1561, f. 171. Photocopy by, with markings by, and courtesy of Camilla Townsend.
