NATIVE AMERICAN KING CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY AROUND 1570 King Mahdo then began welcoming Protestant and Jewish refugees to his kingdom. De Rochefort’s book stated that six survivors of the doomed French colony at Fort Caroline arrived in Apalache in 1566. They converted King Mahdo to Protestant Christianity. Mahdo then began welcoming Protestant and Jewish refugees to his kingdom. A handful of survivors from the Roanoke Colony arrived in 1591. In early 1621 a shipload of English colonists arrived, who permanently gave the colony an English character, complete with a Protestant church. These colonists had planned to settle in Virginia, but re-embarked because of smallpox and hostile Indians. The Dutch sea captain told them about the Melilot colony. Upon reaching what is now northern Georgia, the Englishmen found the climate, year-round, to be more pleasant than Virginia, plus their Native American hosts were civilized and friendly. Apalaches altitude and latitude resulted in milder winters and summers than the swampy region where Jamestown was located. De Rochefort stated that although the Spanish called a province of Indians in northern Florida, the Apalache, these towns were actually colonies of the real Apalache in the Apalachien (Georgia) Mountains. He said that the real name of Florida Indians was Tala-halwase, which means “offspring from highland towns.” We know this word as Tallahassee. The Apalache Kingdom appears on almost all European maps of North America from 1562 to 1715. Melilot’s name appears from around 1600 to 1707. This fascinating lost civilization was completely ignored by American scholars until 2012, when the Track Rock Terrace Complex in Georgia was announced to the world. Officials in several Georgia counties immediately contacted me about ancient stone ruins in their counties and asked for help in obtaining professional archaeological investigations. For decades, archaeologists at the University of Georgia had refused to even look at these ruins. The Apalache Foundation was incorporated in the summer of 2014 to fund professional studies of these enigmatic archeological zones. Some, near Atlanta, are from a mile to two miles across.
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