I represent Don Francisco Moreno, a blanco man born in Pensacola. In an 1810 request for a grant of land from the Spanish Crown (which I made with my brother, Fernando Moreno), it said I had served in the Royal Hospital for four years, and that I had withdrawn from that service “to engage in other other occupations more congenial to [my] social position and tastes.” The same grant request stated that my paternal grandparents “were of the number selected from the City of Malaga by the Marquis del Bao as Populators at New Orleans.” In an 1818 grant request by Jose Bonifay, I was described as “Auditor and Treasurer, ad-interim, of the Royal Coffers of this Town.”
I married Josefa Lopez, the widow Galindo, in June 1815 at St. Michael’s in Pensacola. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 26 years old and newly widowed. I and my three small daughters shared a household with my brother-in-law, Don Ciriaco Lopez, and his family – which included his wife and child and four of his siblings. I was a civil servant in the Spanish government.
My burial appears in the records of St. Michael’s parish; I died November 19, 1883, at the age of 90 – the record helpfully notes that I died of old age. I rest in St. Michael’s cemetery.