An enslaved girl in the household of Don Ramon Santiago in Pensacola, Florida.
Born 21 May 1817. Race is recorded as negra.
Baptized on 14 September 1817 by Father James Coleman at St. Michael’s Parish (Spanish Pensacola). Mother was Victoria, a negra woman enslaved in the same household. Father was listed as unknown in baptismal record (this usually meant the father was unwilling or unable to acknowledge the child).
Ramon Santiago was a shopkeeper born in Spain. At the time of the 1820 Spanish census of Pensacola, no one else was enumerated in the household with him (though that census did not enumerate enslaved people).
FAMILY:
Mother: Victoria Santiago*
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.
Coker, William S. and G. Douglas Inglis. “Census of Pensacola, 1820.” The Spanish Censuses of Pensacola, 1784-1820: A Genealogical Guide to Spanish Pensacola. The Perdido Bay Press, 1980, pp. 93-126.