Will of Benito Caro of Pensacola, Florida

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                 WILL OF BENITO CARO OF PENSACOLA, FL

In the name of the all powerful God, Be it known to all who shall see this my 
will, that I Benito CARO inhabitant of this place, son of Ambresecso and Anna 
Gutierrs (MORENO) CARO and native of the town Iespes (Yepes?) within the 
Conegidorship of Ocana a married man being very infirm of body, but of sound 
understanding and unimpaired memory.  Believing as I firmly do in whatever 
the Holy Catholic Church our mother believes and confesses, in the faith 
whereof I have lived and protest that I die make my last Will in the form 
following:

First I recommend my soul to God who created it and redeemed it with his 
precious earth of which it was formed.

ITEM  Should it please God to take me from this temporal to the eternal life 
I order my body to be intered in the consecrated burying ground of this 
place, and my funeral to be at the disposition of my Executors and the 
demands customary on such occasions to be paid by my said Executors.

ITEM  I declare that I do not owe anything to any person.

ITEM  I declare that Don Juan RUIZ,  inhabitant of this place owes me on an 
open account the sum of forty dollars, Don Diego PALMEZ owes me the interest 
of one thousand dollars for five years.  Don Ignaus SERRA owes me seventeen 
dollars.  Don Tho' RIOBO owes me eleven dollars and eighty seven and a half 
cents. Antonio LOPEZ owes me twenty-four dollars and sixty two and a half 
cents.  The sums due me by other persons will appear by the documents and 
notes or receipts in the possession of my wife.

ITEM  I declare that I contracted and consummated marriage with Miss Marie 
MACHADO about twenty-eight years since and that all the property I possess 
has been acquired since my marriage aforesaid by our mutual industry by which 
marriage I have ten legitimate children all living whose names are CATALINA, 
JOSEPH, GREGARIO, SEBASTIAN, ANNA, BENITO, AMBROCIO, MERCEID, DOLORES and 
PHILIPE whom I declare my only heirs.

ITEM  I appoint my said wife Maria (MACHADO) CARO my executrix and guardian 
and curatress ad bona of my children without the interference of the law or 
of any person in any act or acts that she may think necessary for the good of 
my children for such is my last will.

ITEM  I charge and empower my said executrix and wife to execute and to cause 
to be executed this my last Will and Testament hereby annuling as I do annul 
all other wills of testament that may have been made by me previously to the 
date hereof, for such is my last will.

ITEM  I declare that I possess in the town of Mobile, Alabama two houses with 
the lot wheron they stand and two live slaves grown and small.

In testamony wherof I sign this my will in presence of the subscribing 
witness in the town of Pensacola, Florida this eighth day of April in the 
year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

                                                (Signed) Benito Caro

Witnesses:
Manuel de Caveana 
Friar
Fernando Moreno
Antonio Balderas
Francisco Balderas 

Done before me
Martin de Madred

I certify the above to be a correct translation from the Spanish original
Recorded the 23 January (?), 1815

The above was located in Mobile, Alabama---in Local History Library