Vicente Sebastián Pintado
| Vicente Sebastian Pintado | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Vicente Sebastian Pintado y Brito February 20, 1774 Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands (Spain) |
| Died |
August 20, 1829 (aged 55) Havana, Cuba |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Teresa Eulalia Balderas |
| Occupation | Cartographer, engineer, military officer and land surveyor |
Vicente Sebastian Pintado y Brito (February 20, 1774 - August 20, 1829) was a Spanish cartographer, engineer, military officer and land surveyor of Spanish Louisiana and Spanish West Florida. He lived more than 35 years in the Americas, 25 of them in Louisiana and Florida. He is known for conducting surveys of lands for settlers who had requested grants in Louisiana and Florida, as well as the so-called "Pintado plan", a street map of Pensacola drawn in 1812 which included the position and size of the solares designated for construction of the city's church and other public buildings. He left a large corpus of work consisting of maps, plats, letters and documents vital to an understanding of the complicated sale of lands in Florida and Louisiana during the period. In 1974, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. obtained a donation of the Pintado Collection, a collection of about 1,500 documents now stored in its Division of Manuscripts.
Vicente Sebastian Pintado was born on February 20, 1774, in Santa Cruz de La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain). His parents were Diego Eligio Pintado and Antonia de Brito y Salazax. Although little is known of his youth, he would be expected to have had a good background in mathematics and design.
It is known that Pintado entered the Spanish military in his youth, where he excelled and was promoted to an officer's rank. In 1793, Pintado sailed for Havana, Cuba aboard the barque La Hermosa María Yendo de Campo. During its passage north of Tolvos island he prepared a maritime chart of latitudes, this being his first commission as a cartographer. From Havana, he was ordered to Louisiana, a Spanish province at the time.
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