I represent Don Fernando Moreno, a blanco man born in Pensacola. My parents were Fernando and Florentine Senac Moreno. In an 1810 request for a grant of land from the Spanish Crown (which I made with my brother, Francisco Moreno), it said I had served in the Royal Hospital for two years (my marriage records says I was a surgeon), and that I had withdrawn from that service “to engage in other other occupations more congenial to [my] social position and tastes.” The same grant request stated that my paternal grandparents “were of the number selected from the City of Malaga by the Marquis del Bao as Populators at New Orleans.”
On April 17, 1816, I married Agueda de Rivas at St. Michael’s in Pensacola. I was At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 29 years old and was identified as single. I worked as a civil servant in the Spanish government. In my household was a free parda woman named Felicita Dedé. Also in the household was another free pardo man working as a carpenter.