Career
lieutenant is known that Fernández de Olivera had, at least, a brother, Pedro de Olivera. As a youth, Olivera joined the Spanish army, where he stressed, ascending the post of Captain. Olivera was appointed governor of Florida in 1610, replacing Pedro de Ibarra.
Fernández de Olivera found a Saint Augustine where had settled a lot of exiles - both rebel as also officers and friars - and soldiers, many of whom had committed petty theft and riots, they were indebted, or had exercised the vagrancy.
In 1611, Fernández sent the Infantry Captain Alonso Díaz (native of Badajoz, Spain), to Tampa Bay to punish the Pohoy´s Amerindians because they had killed seventeen Christian Amerindians when they were crossing the Cofa River, carrying the food and cloting of a missionary. So, Alonso Díaz decided kill these people as a punish by the murders of the Amerindians.
After his death, Fernández dispatched soldiers again to Tampa Bay to speak with the heirs of Pohoy and say them that from then on, they never come back to harm to the Christian towns, because was the damage that their predecessors had done to them, which prompted to Fernández punish them. Some Fernández´s soldiers carried gifts to the heirs of Pohoy, offering them peace and amity, being accepted by them.
In addition, Fernández give military support to the Friars that teach to the natives.
He supplied Saint Augustine, Florida carrying things such as over 300 yards of various kinds of cloth, 64 blankets, 14 hatchets, 148 boxes kniver, 34 stings and 26 "hand" of tobacco. The governor also took gifts in San Pedro (Mocama) and Guale provinces such as shirts and strings of beads. Fernández de Olivera died on 23 November 1612 while still ruled Florida, being replaced by Juan de Arraçola and Joseph de Olivera.
