In the mid-1700s, English colonists in Georgia spoke of a Florida locale named for "St. Taffy." Once a Franciscan mission settlement of the Spanish among the Timucua Indians, Santa Fé (Spanish for "Holy Faith") was a site near the modern city of Gainesville, Florida.
Jerald T. Milanich, The Timucua (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996), 102-103; Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Zéspedes in East Florida, 1784-1790 (Carol Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1963), 83.
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