I represent Josef Pablo Morales. I served in the Spanish forces under Gen. Bernardo de Gálvez. I arrived in 1779 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 appear in the Spanish census of Pensacola of 1784, age 42, with my wife, Rosa de Armas, and three sons.
Sources: 120, 48