I represent Genevieve, a mixed race child born about 1770 in Mobile. I would have been a child during the British period in West Florida, with my enslavement status unknown at that time. In the 1820 Spanish Census of Pensacola I was enumerated as a free woman of mixed race, 50 years old, working as a seamstress. Based on my surname and stated place of birth, it is likely I was enslaved by John Ham of Mobile, who took the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity to George III on 2 OCT 1764, as a French resident of what had just become a British colony. While my name was given as Genoveva in the Spanish record, as a member of a French household, my name was likely Genevieve, and indeed, that is the name I used throughout the rest of my life. I am buried in St. Michael’s cemetery; my gravestone says I died on 18 AUG 1852 at the age of 102; however, that age may be off by a few years, given my age in the 1850 census.
Sources: 48, 71