Luis de Rojas y Borja

Luis de Rojas y Borja was the governor of Florida between 28 Oct 1624 and 23 Jun 1630.^[1]

In 1623, the former governor Juan de Salinas had sent two entradas in search of a group of "blond men on horseback" (groups of Americans probably from Carolinas or Georgia) who were exploring the inland of Florida, territory property only of the Spanish, based on some reports he had received, led by a Timucuan chief. So, his successor, Luis Rojas de Borja, sent a third entradas of 10 soldiers and 60 Amerindians Guale. We do not know if they found them.^[2]

Also during his ruled, in the 1620s, was happened a warfare between the Amacano, an unconverted Amerindian group probably hailed from the Golf Coast (in a region localized between the Tampa Bay Pohoy - in the interior Timucuans of the Suwannee River Valley -, and the Apalachee Province to the northwest) and the Pohoy´s followers. The warfare might having even caused the abandonment the Cofa mission at the mouth of the Suwannee River, mission disappeared between the years 1616 and 1636. Probably for this reason, late of 1628 or early 1629, Rojas decided ask some of his soldiers that brought to captain from Pohoy´s town, the second person in importance after the cacique, before him, to that Rojas y Borja might give gifts to the captain and negotiate the peace between the two Amerindian peoples. Probably, Rojas y Borgas founded a mission in San Diego de Heraca in 1624,^{[3] [4]} that was part of the two fronts created to provide work for the Amerindians in the canoe traffic in the north and west of St. Augustine.^[3] Between 1624 and 1627 the place, devastated, was repopulated by natives of Utiaca, in the Acuera province by these years.^[3][4]

He was replaced by Andrés Rodríguez de Villegas as governor of Florida in 1619.

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