I represent Don Juan Miguel Morales, a blanco man born in New Orleans in 1794. My parents were Miguel Morales, a native of Granada, Spain and first sergeant in the Louisiana Regiment; and Maria Antonia Artacho Morales.
At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 26 years old and lived in the household of my widowed mother. I worked as a civil servant in the Spanish government of Pensacola, specifically as an Officer of the National Treasury. I had 7 siblings. Between the census and the changing of the flags, though, I married Maria Carmen Marchena, daughter of Jose and Catalina Falcon Marchena, on July 16, 1821 at St. Michael’s.