I represent Don Pedro de Alba, a European man born in Velez, Malaga, Spain. I was the son of Pedro de Alba and Monica Lopez, also of Velez.
I became an orderly in the Pensacola hospital in 1782. I appear in the 1784 census of Pensacola as a 22-year-old in the household of The Reverend Father Fray Pedro de Velez Malaga, along with numerous enslaved people and one English child of 8 years old.
I married Isabel Rastel de Rocheblave in New Orleans in 1784, though she later died.
In 1786 I became the majordomo of admissions at the Roya Hospital . I am listed in the 1791 Holy Visit to Pensacola by the Bishop of Tricali as the Manager of the Royal Hospital of Pensacola.
I married my second wife, Doña Victoire LeSassier of New Orleans, on September 1, 1813 at St. Michael’s in Pensacola. (In the 1830s, this marriage ended in a rather spectacular divorce.) In my marriage record, I am called the Steward of the Navy Hospital.
At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 53 years old and am listed as a civil servant, acting as agent of the King of Spain and the Captain General of Cuba in the transition of power.