I represent Santiago (Jacques) Sorbies, a European man born in France. At the time of the 1820 census of Pensacola, I was 45 years old and making my living as a shopkeeper. I lived with Maria Vellon, a free negra woman; our two children, and an elderly negro baker by the name of Pedro Dalmacio whose relationship to us is not specified. 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.
My death appears in the burial records of St. Michael’s parish: November 23, 1846, at the age of 80.