Juan Menéndez Márquez, as the betrothed of Posada's daughter, inherited the position and served as royal treasurer from 1593 until his death in 1627.
[Note 2] At the time of Avendaño's death, Argüelles was in Mexico City to retrieve the situado, the annual subsidy from the treasury of New Spain to support the presidio at St. Augustine.
Menéndez Márquez and Las Alas were reported to have quarrelled over the governance of Florida until Argüelles returned from Mexico City.
The King turned down Argüelles's request, and appointed Gonzalo Méndez de Cancio y Donlebún, who had never been to Florida, as governor.
[7][8][9] Soon after Méndez reached St. Augustine, he encountered resistance over a payment from the royal treasury to the new garrison priest, Father Ricardo.
In 1622 Governor Juan de Salinas went to The Bahamas in hopes of salvaging cargo from the ships of the Spanish treasure fleet that had wrecked that year, and Menéndez Márquez went with him to take custody of any gold and silver that was recovered.