I represent Cristobal Ariola, a pardo boy, 11 years old at the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola. I was the son of Cristobal Ariola, an Italian carpenter, and Dorotea, a free morena woman. Families of mixed ethnicity like ours were quite common in Spanish West Florida, as the Spanish did not have the same social taboos as Anglo-American society. I was born in Louisiana, like my mother and I had 3 siblings. We shared our home with a free negra woman named Elena Amberg, whose relationship to us is not specified.