I represent Onofre Jose Bonals, a pardo boy born in Pensacola in 1818. I was baptized by Father Coleman at St. Michael’s on October 17, 1818. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 2 years old. I lived with my father, the Spaniard Don Francisco Bonal; my mother, Emilia Mombrun, a free parda woman; and – by the time of the changing of the flags – three siblings. 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.