 The Spanish Crown endorsed the settlement of Pensacola Bay on June 13, 1694.A year later, in 1695, Andrés de Arriola inspected both the mouth of the Mississippi River and Pensacola Bay but did not find the bay to be the paradise Sigüenza had described.Preoccupied with King William's War (1689–1697), the Spanish delayed settlement of Pensacola until 1698.