I represent Angelica Forneret, a free quadroon woman born in Louisiana.
The Fornerets made up a large and prosperous mixed-race family. I was one of nine children born to Don Luis Forneret, a government interpreter of Native American languages, and Maria Forneret, a negra woman who purchased her freedom for herself and their eight children from Don Luis in 1786. I am listed in the 1784 census of Pensacola as a 5-year-old in the household of my natural father and my mother, my siblings; and four enslaved people .
At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 40 years old. I worked as a seamstress. I was single and lived with my 9 children between the ages of 1 and 20 years old.