The names of slaves were significant. Those who had come directly from Africa were identified by origin, as Rita Ganga, Maria Angola, or Arara, Mandinga, or Conga. Those born in the house were identified with the family: Maria de Pedrosa was Antonia de Pedrosa’s slave; Francisco Capitan AN320 belonged to Francisco Menendez Marquez II, who in his youth had been Florida’s first captain of cavalry. AN321 A good Catholic family saw that their slaves were Christian and the babies legitimate. In the Parish Register are recorded the occasions when slaves married, baptized an infant, or served as sponsors to other slaves, mixed-bloods, or Indians. The parish priest entered the owner’s name and, starting in 1664, frequently noted the shade of the slave’s skin color: negro, moreno, mulato, or pardo. One family of house slaves belonging to the Menendez Marquez family are traceable in the registry for three generations. AN147 (Bushnell KC)