A free woman of color in Pensacola, Florida.
Born around 1770 in Louisiana. Race is recorded as Negro.
In the 1820 Spanish census of Pensacola, she is recorded as working as a laundress. She lived with a younger woman of color, Gertrudis Alba, who may have been her daughter. Also in the household were Gertrudis’ son, Adolfo, and Gertrudis had a daughter, Maria Ana, after the census. Last was another free woman of color, Genoveva Ham.
SOURCES:
Nolan, Dr. Charles E, ed. Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archidiocese of New Orleans, Vol. 14: 1820-1821. New Orleans: Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1999.
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.