An enslaved woman in the household of Victoire Le Sassier, widow of Lt. Col. Jose Noriega.
Born between 1745 and 1755. Race is recorded as negra.
Listed in the 1791 Holy Visit to Pensacola by the Bishop of Tricali as having made confession and taken communion in 1791.
Appears in the Bill of Complaint for Divorce between Madame Victoire and her second husband, Don Pedro de Alba, Sr. Judith was listed among the property Mme. Le Sassier owned before her marriage to de Alba in 1813; described as being 57 years old, and a cook in 1813, but by the time of the filing of the divorce in 1830, she was described as being 80 to 90 years old.
She does not appear in Victoire Le Sassier’s 1833 will, which may indicate she had passed away in the interim.
SOURCES:
Coker, William S. and G. Douglas Inglis, “Holy Visit to Pensacola, 1791.” The Spanish Censuses of Pensacola, 1784-1820: A Genealogical Guide to Spanish Pensacola. The Perdido Bay Press, 1980, p. 49.
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.]
Will of Victoire LeSassier, 10? APR 1833. Ancestry.com. Florida, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1827-1950 [accessed 27 FEB 2021]