I represent Jose Esteban Garcia, a free pardo child born in Pensacola. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 9 years old. I lived in the household of Cayetano Garcia, whose household also included a Spanish baker and a free parda woman named Clara Garcia, who is probably my mother. My relationship to the men in the household is unclear, though Cayetano was likely my father. 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.