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Musings on My Tri-racial Black and Puerto Rican Ancestry.
“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.” Teaching children values and giving them the opportunity to excel is essential to good parenting. However, I feel I must also provide my children (and myself) insight into the ones who came before us: our ancestors whose lives and stories have shaped us into who we are. This is my journey; these are their stories…
I have an instance of a (light-colored) black man becoming part of a (white) Indiana regiment in the Mexican-American War. I think this might be a “first” or at least highly unusual. Any ideas how I can determine this?
I am not sure I get what you are saying but if you are saying that a light skinned black man passed for what, I get it. But I would not be surprised.
I would like to know more
He wasn’t passing. He was known as a black man. He served as a cook for a company in the 5th Indiana Volunteers in the Mexican War. The men in the company were paying him out of their pockets. When they were in Mexico, they petitioned their superiors to enlist him, which was done in Mexico City on Dec. 31, 1847 (confirmed on the adjutant general’s roster). After he mustered out, he received bounty land in Indiana (confirmed in bounty warrants and BLM land records). After that, I don’t find any records I can be sure of. He is in Indiana in 1850, listed as Mulatto in the census.