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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (c. 1480 – 18 October 1526) was a Spanish magistrate and explorer who in 1526 established the short-lived San Miguel de Gualdape colony, one of the first European attempts at a settlement in what is now the United States. Ayllón's account of the region inspired a number of later attempts by the Spanish and French ...
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Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (born c. 1475, Toledo, Spain—died 1526, present South Carolina) was a Spanish explorer and the first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina. Going to the West Indies in 1502, he became a judge in the colonial administration of Hispaniola (Santo Domingo).
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Apr 15, 2016 · Colonizer, explorer. The founder of the first Spanish town in the territory of what came to be the United States, Ayllón was born circa 1480 in Toledo, Spain, to Juan Vázquez de Ayllón and Inés de Villalobos. In 1504 Ayllón arrived in the Spanish colony of Hispaniola to serve as a district judge.
Sep 7, 2019 · Enslaved Africans were brought in to replace them in the backbreaking search for gold — gold that was getting harder and harder to find. Advertisement. Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, a government...
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.
Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who tried to start a colony in North America in 1526. He was the first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina. His attempt to settle the Carolina coast near the mouth of the Peedee River at Winyah Bay was unsuccessful.
Aug 8, 2016 · Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón (lōō´käs väs´kāth dā īlyōn´), c.1475–1526, Spanish explorer. He emigrated in 1502 to Santo Domingo, where he became a public official. In 1521, Francisco Gordillo, sent by Ayllón to explore northward, seems to have landed in either Florida or South Carolina [1].
