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Ajacán Mission, the Glossary

The Ajacán Mission (also Axaca, Axacam, Iacan, Jacán, Xacan) was a Spanish attempt in 1570 to establish a Jesuit mission in the vicinity of the Virginia Peninsula to bring Christianity to the Virginia Native Americans.^[1]

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1570 establishments in New Spain
1570s in New Spain
1571 disestablishments in New Spain
Chesapeake Bay
Pre-statehood history of Virginia
Spanish missions in the United States

Aquia Creek

Aquia Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Ángel de Villafañe

Ángel de Villafañe (b. c. 1504) was a Spanish conquistador of Florida, Mexico, and Guatemala, and was an explorer, expedition leader, and ship captain (with Hernán Cortés), who worked with many 16th-century settlements and shipwrecks along the Gulf of Mexico.

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Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.

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Chickahominy River

The Chickahominy is an U.S. Geological Survey.

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Diascund Creek

Diascund Creek is the major tributary of the Chickahominy River in Virginia, part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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Don Luis

Don Luís de Velasco, also known as Paquiquino (or Paquiquineo), and also simply Don Luis, was a Native American, possibly of the Kiskiack or Paspahegh people, from the area of what is now Tidewater, Virginia. Ajacán Mission and Don Luis are Chesapeake Bay, native American history of Virginia and Spanish missions in the United States.

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Fort San Juan (Joara)

Fort San Juan was a late 16th-century fort built by the Spanish under the command of conquistador Juan Pardo in the native village of Joara, in what is now Burke County, North Carolina.

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Francis Borgia

Francis Borgia (Francesc de Borja; Francisco de Borja; 28 October 1510 – 30 September 1572) was a Spanish Jesuit priest.

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Guale

Guale was a historic Native American chiefdom of Mississippian culture peoples located along the coast of present-day Georgia and the Sea Islands. Ajacán Mission and Guale are Colonial United States (Spanish).

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Havana

Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.

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History of Virginia

The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.

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Jamestown, Virginia

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Joara

Joara was a large Native American settlement, a regional chiefdom of the Mississippian culture, located in what is now Burke County, North Carolina, about 300 miles from the Atlantic coast in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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Juan Pardo (explorer)

Juan Pardo was a Spanish explorer who was active in the latter half of the 16th century. Ajacán Mission and Juan Pardo (explorer) are Colonial United States (Spanish).

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Kiskiack

Kiskiack (or Chisiack or Chiskiack) was a Native American tribal group of the Powhatan Confederacy in what is present-day York County, Virginia.

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List of Jesuit sites

This list includes past and present buildings, facilities and institutions associated with the Society of Jesus.

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Luis de Velasco, 2nd Viceroy of New Spain

Luis de Velasco y Ruiz de Alarcón (1511 – July 31, 1564) was the second viceroy of New Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the mid-sixteenth century.

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Morisco

Moriscos (mouriscos; Spanish for "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Catholic Church and Habsburg Spain commanded to forcibly convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed Islam.

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Mound Key Archaeological State Park

Mound Key Archaeological State Park is a Florida State Park, located in Estero Bay, near the mouth of the Estero River.

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Native American tribes in Virginia

The Native American tribes in Virginia are the Indigenous peoples whose tribal nations historically or currently are based in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States of America. Ajacán Mission and Native American tribes in Virginia are native American history of Virginia and pre-statehood history of Virginia.

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New Kent County, Virginia

New Kent County is a county in the south eastern part the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada.

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Occoquan River

The Occoquan River is a tributary of the Potomac River in Northern Virginia, where it serves as part of the boundary between Fairfax and Prince William counties.

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Patawomeck

The Patawomeck are a Native American tribe based in Stafford County, Virginia, along the Potomac River.

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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (Pedro (Menéndez) d'Avilés; 15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574) was a Spanish admiral, explorer and conquistador from Avilés, in Asturias, Spain. Ajacán Mission and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés are Colonial United States (Spanish).

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Pedro Menéndez Márquez

Pedro Menéndez Márquez (c.1537 – 1600) was a Spanish military officer, conquistador, and governor of Spanish Florida.

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Philip II of Spain

Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.

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Port Royal, South Carolina

Port Royal is a town on Port Royal Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States.

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Potomac River

The Potomac River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

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Queen's Creek

Queen's Creek is located in York County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia in the United States.

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Rappahannock River

The Rappahannock River is a river in eastern Virginia, in the United States, approximately in length.

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Roanoke Colony

Roanoke Colony was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Venice in Florida

The Diocese of Venice in Florida (Dioecesis Venetiae in Florida) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory–or diocese, of the Catholic Church in southwest Florida in the United States.

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Santa Elena (Spanish Florida)

Santa Elena, a Spanish settlement on what is now Parris Island, South Carolina, was the capital of Spanish Florida from 1566 to 1587. Ajacán Mission and Santa Elena (Spanish Florida) are Spanish missions in the United States.

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Servant of God

Servant of God is a title used in the Catholic Church to indicate that an individual is on the first step toward possible canonization as a saint.

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Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, lit) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain.

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Spanish colonization of the Americas

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile. Ajacán Mission and Spanish colonization of the Americas are Colonial United States (Spanish).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajacán_Mission

Also known as Ajacáàn Mission, Santa maria de axacan, Spanish missions in Virginia.

Ajacán Mission, the Glossary

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See also

1570 establishments in New Spain

1570s in New Spain

1571 disestablishments in New Spain

Chesapeake Bay

Pre-statehood history of Virginia

Spanish missions in the United States

References