Editing St. Simons, Georgia (section)

===Spanish mission of San Buenaventura de Guadalquini===
The mission of [[San Buenaventura de Guadalquini]] was established on the southern end of St. Simons sometime between 1597 and 1609 (probably near the present-day [[St. Simons Island Light]]) and was the northernmost mission in the Mocama area. The [[Timucua language]] name for St. Simon's Island was ''Guadalquini''. The Spanish called it ''Isla de Ballenas'' (Isle of Whales). Some Spanish documents called the island {{em|Boadalquivi}}.{{sfn|Ashley|Rolland|Thunen|2013|pp=397, 421}}{{sfn|Hann|1996|p=175}}{{sfn|Milanich|1995|pp=115, 172}}

Raiders from the Chichimecos (the Spanish name for [[Westo]]s), Uchise (the Spanish name for [[Muscogee]]), and Chiluque (a name the Spanish used for a faction of the Mocamo and for [[Yamassee]]) and possibly other nations, aided and supported by the English in the [[Province of Carolina]], attacked Colon (also called San Simon) a village of un-Christianized Yamasee to the north of San Buenaventura on St. Simon Island, in 1680.{{sfn|Ashley|Rolland|Thunen|2013|p=401}}{{sfn|Hann|1996|pp=269, 271-72}}{{sfn|Worth|2007|pp=19-20, 98}} A force of Spanish soldiers and Native Americans from San Buenaventura went to the aid of Colon, forcing the raiders to withdraw.{{sfn|Hann|1996|pp=268–69}}

In 1683, St. Augustine was attacked by a pirate fleet, and in 1684 missions along what is now the Georgia coast were attacked by Native American allies of the English. The mission of San Buenaventura was ordered to move south and merge with the mission of [[San Juan del Puerto, Florida|San Juan del Puerto]] on the [[St. Johns River]]. Before the mission could be moved, pirates returned to the area in the second half of 1684. On hearing of the presence of the pirates, Lorenzo de Santiago, chief of San Buenaventura, moved the people of his village, along with most of their property and stored maize, to the mainland. When the pirates landed at San Buenaventura, they found only ten men under a sub-chief who had been left to guard the village. The San Buenaventura men withdrew to the woods, and the pirates burned the village and mission.{{sfn|Hann|1996|pp=270-71}}{{sfn|Milanich|2006|p=174}} After the pirates burned the mission, the people of Guadalquini moved to a site about one league west of San Juan del Puerto on the St. Johns River, where a new mission named Santa Cruz de Guadalquini was established.{{sfn|Hann|1996|p=271}}