I represent Domingo de Acosta. I served in the Louisiana Regiment under Bernardo de Gálvez. I arrived in 1778 with a group of Canary Islanders, soldiers and their families who came to both reinforce the Spanish troops and potentially settle in the Spanish New World. Gálvez recruited the most promising soldiers for his Gulf Coast campaign and set the rest to farming and guarding the home front. There were eventually 700 of us, with 1600 wives and children. I am probably the Domingo de Acosta listed in the 1784 Spanish census of Pensacola. I had married by then, to Francisca, and we had child Rita, who was just over a year old.
Sources: 120, 48