Marcelino Adolfo Alba

I represent Marcelino Adolfo Alba, a free parda boy born in 1817. My mother was Gertrudis Alba, 26 at the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, a single woman working as a seamstress. We were both born in Pensacola. I was baptized on July 31, 1817 by Father Coleman at St. Michael’s. My father was not listed, but because my mother was parda, I was too, regardless of the race of my father. We lived in the household with Mariana Alba, a free negra woman who may have been my grandmother, and Genoveva Ham, another free woman of color famous for having lived to be 102. By 1821, I had a new baby sister, Maria Ana.