I represent Don Jose Esteban Caro, a blanco man born in Louisiana. My parents were Benito and Maria Machado Caro. My wife, Doña Paula de Rivas, and I were married at the Cathedral of St. Louis in New Orleans on March 14, 1812, where I was described as a native of Pensacola residing in Mobile. Strangely, there is a marriage record for us in the St. Michael’s parish records in Pensacola as well, dated June 17, 1814.
At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 27 years old. Paula and I had four young children. I was the keeper of the Spanish Archives and I appear as a Notary on many documents before and after the changing of the flags. My death appears in the burial records of St. Michael’s parish: October 30, 1860.