The missions were to spread Catholicism among Indian peoples, but they were actually used to integrate Indians into the political and economical structure of Georgia's colonial system. The first successful mission was San Pedro de Mocama, founded in the Mocama chiefdom on the southern end of what is now Cumberland Island. There had also been no less than 5 other missions set up in the main towns of the Guale chiefdom. Every year unmarried males would be picked to go work in the Spanish corn fields in St. Augustine, FL. This was called repartimiento. They were paid with inexpensive goods for each day of labor. They often caught diseases or died of exhaustion