Vicente González (? - ?) was governor of

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between November 22, 1577, and 1578.Turner Bushnell, Amy (1994)
Situado and Sabana: Spain support system for the Presidio and Mission Provinces of Florida
The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale. Volumen 68. American Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Papers. Number 74. Page 212. He was also governor of

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, from, at least, 1577 to 1580. Vicente González was appointment

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of Pedro Menéndez de Márquez in Santa Elena, together to Captain Tomás Bernaldo de Quirós, in 1577, serving in this charge until 1580.Witness to Empire and the Tightening of Military Control: Santa Elena's Second Spanish Occupation, 1577-1587
Retrieved in July 20, 2014, to 01:47pm. On November 22, 1577, González was appointment governor of

, holding office until 1578. In 1586 Gonzalez led a mission send for Menéndez de Márquez to a legendary strait located "beyond" Florida, where several villages were established, of which Menendez de Marquez wanted to learn. During his trip, Gonzalez meet a local

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who confirmed him the existence of the strait.Ménard, Caroline
La Pesca gallega en Terranova, siglos XVI-XVIII
(in Spanish: The Galician fishing in Newfoundland, XVI-XVIII centuries). Page 57. In October 1586, Gonzalez told the

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that near

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was a port next to a fertile land with gold and diamond mines, which was densely populated by indigenous. The Council decided that this land should be studied and Spanish shipwreck victims to settle there. In the 1580s Vicente González led several voyages into the

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in search of English settlements in the area.

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