Francisco Rivera

I represent Francisco Rivera, a European man born in Galicia, Spain. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 50 years old and made my living as a sailor. I lived with Luisa, a free negra woman who worked as a laundress, and our son, Cayetano. Families of mixed ethnicity like ours were quite common in Spanish West Florida, as the Spanish did not have the same social taboos as Anglo-American society.