Bill Coker's book THE SPANISH CENSUSES OF PENSACOLA, 1784-1820: A Genealogical Guide to Spanish Pensacola, was published in 1980. It is out-of-print. I was talking to Bill yesterday here in the office and telling him that our copie(s) were going to be quite worn out from the Florida-L list! Anyway, these "censuses" are compilations of materials which were produced by the Catholic Church, Spanish government, etc. for various reasons. They are not all "true" censuses in listing every occupant of Pensacola or the West Florida region but the come quite close. And by matching the lists (Bill indexed all the names) we get some good ideas of who is here and why. There are "censuses" for 1784, 1788, 1791, 1796, 1798, 1802, 1803, 1805, 1819, 1820...along with lists of soldiers and troop strengths at the Spanish forts here. Several years after publication of these "censuses," Bill discovered a few more and these appear in the Florida Historical Quarterly, July 1982 (v. 61), pp. 54-63 and are "precept" lists (Catholic Church lists of parish members and non-members(!) Coker's census compilations are also supported by Jack D. L. Holmes' unpublished "Pensacola Settlers 1781-1821." At the present time, we've started getting new records from Spain to cover the Pensacola settlements for the 1698-1731 period and Dr. Wayne Childers is beginning to translate these records to give us an idea of life (and people) in Pensacola at that time. I will be happy to check Coker's works and Holmes compilation for names anyone is interested in. Please send me e-mail (and not to the list). On a final note, the two Florida's (Colonies of East Florida and West Florida) were not united until their transfer to Andrew Jackson in 1821. Thus there may also exist censuses, etc. for East Florida (St. Augustine, the capital), and frankly this is out of my area, both geographically (400 miles east of here) and technically. Dean Dean DeBolt, University Librarian Special Collections and West Florida Archives University of West Florida Library 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 Tele: 850-474-2213. Fax: 850-474-3338. E-mail: ddebolt@uwf.edu ---------------------------------------------------- Reach me by ICQ. My ICQ# is 14599771 or, * Page me online through my Personal Communication Center: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/14599771 (go there and try it ----------------------------------------------------