A free woman of color in the household of Francisco Rivera in Spanish Pensacola.
Born around 1790 in Africa. Race is recorded as negra.
Enumerated in the 1820 Spanish census of Pensacola along with Francisco, a fifty-year-old sailor from Spain, and Cayetano, a 5-year-old pardo boy who is presumably their son – families of mixed ethnicity were quite common in Spanish West Florida. But Francisco and Luisa would not have been legally married, and she may or may not have used his surname.
FAMILY:
Child: Cayetano Rivera
SOURCES:
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