An enslaved man in the household of Lt. Col. Jose Noriega.
Born around 1793. 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 mother was Genoveva, a negra woman enslaved in the same household.
Appears in the Bill of Complaint for Divorce between Madame Victoire Le Sassier (widow of Lt. Col Noriega) and her second husband, Don Pedro de Alba, Sr. He was listed among the property Mme. Le Sassier owned before her marriage to de Alba in 1813, and he was described as being 20 years old. He was among the enslaved people in the household who went to her son, Don Jose Noriega, Jr., when the property of Lt. Col. Noriega’s estate was divided between mother and son.
FAMILY:
Mother: Genoveva Noriega*
Sister: Antonia Mariana Noriega*
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
Victoire Le Sassier v. Pedro de Alba, Florida State Supreme Court, 11 November 1831. In custody of Special Collections, John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida, Coker Film 102-2. [Transcription by Deborah Beagle Baldock, www.wfgs.org, 1 February 2021.]