Adelaide Tallasco

I represent Adelaide Tallasco, a free parda woman born in Louisiana. At the time of the 1820 census in Pensacola, I was 35 years old and made my living as a seamstress. I lived with Don Henry Michelet, a French shopkeeper at the time. It is possible that we were living as husband and wife (the Spanish did not have the same social taboos against this as the Anglo-Americans). He was named as the Executor of my will. At the time I made that will, 1832, I stated that I was unmarried and had no heirs; I owned a slave and had land and money to leave to others.