I represent Esther, an enslaved negra woman in the household of Victoire LeSassier. I was born in about 1777, probably in Louisiana. am listed in the 1791 Holy Visit to Pensacola by the Bishop of Tricali as having made confession and taken communion in 1791. I was in the confirmation records of my children, Manuel and Carlota (Charlotte), confirmed in Pensacola on May 7, 1798, by the Bishop of Louisiana and the Floridas, Rev. Luis Peñalver y Cardenas. I had one more child, Leandro, born in 1812. I was listed in the court papers associated with the divorce of Don Pedro de Alba and Victoire LeSassier as being among the property that Victoire LeSassier brought to her marriage with Don Pedro de Alba. I and my daughter, Charlotte, were freed in the 1833 will of Mme. LeSassier. An entry in the Escambia County Deed Index for 1834 from the Estate of Victoire LeSassier seems to confirm that her will was carried out.
