I represent Francisco María Bonet de Arsein. 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. General Bernardo de 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 joined the Louisiana Regiment under Gen. Gálvez as a lieutenant and served under him in the Gulf Coast campaign. I may be the Francisco Bonet listed in the 1784 Spanish census of Pensacola, and who was serving as Sergeant Major of the plaza of Pensacola in 1791.
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