Indians baptized in the cathedral's "people of color" register (New Orleans, 1777–1783)

SUMMARYIndians baptized in the cathedral's "people of color" register (New Orleans, 1777–1783) [Connections: Louisiana (deep), Nov 5, 2026]

RECORDThe fourth register of christenings for people of color at the Cathedral of St. Louis King of France, New Orleans (1777–1783), as indexed by Christophe Landry, lists under "Free Persons of Color" entries including "Constancia • Constance sauvagesse" (p. 169), "Juan Bautista • Jean Baptiste índo Apalache" (p. 275) and "Foucher y Bernoudy, María Francisca • Marie Françoise mestiza" (p. 238). An adult christening of "Luis... salbaje" (Spanish spelling of the same colonizer word) appears under "Christenings of Unclear Status" (p. 279)

PATTERNThe church kept one set of books for whites and one for people "of color." An Apalachee man and an Indian woman were entered in the "of color" book, beside Africans and their descendants. The register itself put Native people inside the "colored" category

LENS (WW9)The church filed Apalachee people in the colored book in the 1770s. The sorting started at the baptismal font

OPENChristening dates and the full entries for each person (the index gives only page numbers); whether later records of these same people keep the Indian descriptor

SOURCERegister 4 (1777–1783), people of color, St. Louis Cathedral, indexed by Christophe Landry (LHCV, June 2017); primary: Archdiocese of New Orleans, Sacramental Records, St. Louis Cathedral Baptisms of People of Color, Book 4.