An enslaved mulato boy in the household of Captain Jean Marcos Coulon de Villiers.
Francisco Dalmacio was born 20 October 1819. He was baptized by Father James Coleman at St. Michael’s Parish (Spanish Pensacola) on 5 February 1820. His mother was Francisca, a negra woman enslaved in the same household. His father was listed as unknown in his baptismal record (this usually meant the father was unwilling or unable to acknowledge the child).
In a Bill of Sale dated 18 March 1847, he was sold by the Executor of Marcos de Villiers’ estate (de Villiers’ son-in-law, Arnauld Guillemard) to Marie Joseph Hugues de Villiers Guillemard – who was Arnauld’s wife – for $600. In that instrument, he was described as 26 years old.
In 1860, Francisco Dalmacio should have been 40 years old; however, in the 1860 slave schedules, Maria Guillemard does not list an enslaved person in her possession who is that old. (The oldest male is 34.) Unless a bill of sale surfaces between 1847 and 1860 documenting his movement to another household (or manumission), one must assume he died in her household before 1860. (The 1850 slave schedule is inconclusive.)
FAMILY:
Mother: Francisca de Villiers*
SOURCES:
Records of St. Michael’s Parish, Pensacola, FL, Book III: Baptisms of People of Color, 1817 – 1882. University of West Florida Archives and West Florida History Center. 22 SEP 2021.
Escambia County Deed Records Book I, page 222 (18 March 1847).
Ancestry.com. 1860 U.S. Federal Census – Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls.