Maria Alba

A free woman of color in Pensacola, Florida.

Born around 1770 in Pensacola. Race is recorded as parda.

Widowed by the time of the 1820 Spanish census, and worked as a laundress. Her household included her daughter, Andrea, a parda woman born around 1789.

FAMILY:

Child: Andrea Alba


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.