Spanish Florida
Tomás Menéndez Márquez was born in St. Augustine, Florida in 1643. His father was Francisco Menéndez Márquez y Posada, royal treasurer ("tesorero real") and co-interim governor of Spanish Florida. Tomás's mother was Antonia Ana Pedroso y Ayllón, from Cuba. Tomás's grandfather was Juan Menéndez Márquez, royal treasurer and co-interim governor of Spanish Florida, governor of Popayán Province (in what is now Colombia), and nephew of Pedro Menéndez Márquez, who had been governor of Spanish Florida for 17 years.