Findlay McCaskill

I represent Findlay McCaskill. I lived in the Escambia River District, which included both banks of the Escambia River from the Alabama line into present day Santa Rosa County, about 25-40 miles north of Pensacola as it existed in 1820. My household was part of an Anglo-American population that settled and farmed land in Spanish territory without permission of the Spanish government, but which was tolerated because it supplied Pensacola with produce. I came from Scotland, and at the time of the 1820 census of the Escambia River District, I was 50 years old and married to Peggy McCaskill. We had 8 children between 11 and 27 years old. Our household included 5 enslaved Black people. We lived on a fair-sized farm with cattle and hogs.