Samuel (Noriega)

I represent Samuel, an enslaved negro man in the household of Victoire LeSassier. I was listed in the confirmation record of my daughter Ysabel, a negra slave in the household of Don Pedro de Alba, along with her mother, Julia, a negra woman also enslaved in Madame LeSassier’s household. (Ysabel was confirmed at Ft. Barrancas, May 21, 1798, by the Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Rev. Luis Peñalver y Cardenas). I was named in Victoire LeSassier’s 1830 complaint of divorce from Don Pedro de Alba as being a carpenter. I was 30 years old, though this probably referred to my age in 1813, when the late Don Jose Noriega’s property was divided between Victoire and her son.