Antonio de Alba*

An enslaved man in the household of Don Pedro de Alba.

Race is recorded as mulato.

Confirmed in Pensacola on May 7, 1798, by the Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Rev. Luis Peñalver y Cardenas. Because the Bishop visited the area so infrequently, young people and converts of all ages were confirmed whenever the opportunity arose; thus there is no way to estimate his age from this record. His padrino, or godfather, was Don Juan de Alba.

The 1835 will of Don Pedro mentions a mulato named Antonio (child of the mulata woman Felicite), who was freed in 1832, but that Antonio was born in 1831.


SOURCES:

Coker, William S. and G. Douglas Inglis, “Confirmation Lists for Pensacola and Fort Barrancas, 1798,” The Spanish Censuses of Pensacola, 1784-1820: A Genealogical Guide to Spanish Pensacola. The Perdido Bay Press, 1980, pp. 61-76

Will of Don Pedro de Alba, 1 April 1835. Ancestry.com. Florida, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1827-1950 [accessed 1 FEB 2021]