Bernardo Pargas

I represent Bernardo Pargas, a European man born in Galicia, Spain. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 40 years old and working as a pulpero, which can be translated as grocer or tavernkeeper. I lived with Maria, a free negra woman working as a laundress. It is likely that Maria and I were living as husband and wife (the Spanish did not have the same social taboos against this as the Anglo-Americans), and she may have used my surname.