I represent Manuela de la Merced Palao, a free parda girl born in Pensacola on New Year’s Day, 1820.I was baptized by Father Coleman at St. Michael’s on March 20, 1820. My godparents were the free pardos Severino and Maria de la Merced Vidal Palao. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 1 year old. I lived with my mother, the free quadroon woman Catalina Palao, and my two sisters.