River became the center of an independent chiefdom in the later 16th century. Tocoy was located due west of St. Augustine and east of the old Utina village. It was thus presumably part of Utina's chiefdom in the 1560s, though at the northernmost bounds. Shortly after the foundation of St. Augustine, the chief of Tocoy, Pedro Márquez, moved to a new village closer to the Spanish settlement, known as San Sebastián. Consequently, Pedro and his successor were often known as Chief of Tocoy and San Sebastián. Pedro was one of the first chiefs to submit to Spanish authority, and converted to Christianity even before missionary efforts began. His son and successor Gaspar Márquez later noted that his father and mother had been "some of the first Christians baptized in these provinces", and had requested missionaries and built churches in San Sebastián. The relocation to San Sebastián and the alignment with the Spanish evidently elevated the profile of the Chiefs of Tocoy, who had probably been marginal in the Utina chiefdom, and facilitated the break. The Spanish established missions in both Tocoy and San Sebastián in 1587; these, together with the missions to the Mocama to north, were among the first successful missions established in Spanish Florida. Gaspar Márquez succeeded his father around 1595, and maintained Pedro's good relations with the Spanish. He continued to support the mission effort, and sent a petition to the King of Spain in 1606, but his people were in a state of precipitous decline. In 1606, there were only about 90 people left in the chiefdom. Neither of Tocoy's missions is mentioned in records after 1608, and Tocoy was abandoned by 1616, leaving the area virtually unpopulated. The area was merged with Agua Dulce Province, and any survivors may have relocated to Mission Nombre de Dios north of St. Augustine. Because of its strategic location as a river crossing on the St. Johns, the Spanish relocated other Timucua to a new mission, San Diego de Helaca, in the former Tocoy area. This too was abandoned by the late 1650s, the remaining population relocated to the new multi-ethnic mission town of Salamototo. The short-lived chiefdom of Tocoy left its mark on the landscape in the name of the San Sebastian River, the small river that flows into the Intracoastal Waterway where the erstwhile village of San Sebastián stood. Acuera chiefdom The Acuera, who lived along Ocklawaha