USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -San Miguel de Gualdape (sometimes San Miguel de Guadalupe) is a former Spanish colony in present-day Georgetown County, South Carolina, founded in 1526 by Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón. It was the first European settlement in what became the continental United States, and the third in North America north of Mexico.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, (born c. 1475, Toledo, Spain-died 1526, present South Carolina), Spanish explorer and first European colonizer of what is now South Carolina.

Detailed explanation-3: -Settlement. Spaniards founded the first European settlements in the Southeast and Gulf coastal areas. In 1526, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón established the first Spanish colony, which he named San Miguel de Gualdape after the Guale Indians.

Detailed explanation-4: -The enslaved Africans escaped to live with the local Native Americans. This incident is regarded as the first slave rebellion in mainland North America. By July 1527, only one hundred and fifty of the original settlers had survived and returned home to Hispaniola.

Detailed explanation-5: -San Miguel de Gualdape initially had some six hundred residents, among them sailors, Spanish colonists (including women and children), several priests, and an unknown number of African slaves. The group constructed houses and a church and established the institutions of government there.