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Posted May 1, 2024
Pedro Vilá was born in Cataluña, Spain, around 1781. At some point he sailed to Puerto Rico, where he met and married María del Pilar González, the daughter of Lázaro González and Eduarda Medina. They had six children: Juan de la Paz (1813-1872), José María (1815-1845), María de la Cruz (1817-1858), María Inés (1820-1878), Amalia Lucinda or María Amalia (1823-1868), and María del Pilar (1926-1829).
In a census taken in Peñuelas in 1822, Pedro Vilá was said to own twenty-two acres of land, one house, 500 coffee plants, one cow, one horse, one mare, and one turkey. In the same census, Pedro’s father-in-law, Lázaro González, was reported to own six acres of pasture, one house, 2,000 coffee plants, two coconut trees, two cows, two oxen, two mares, twenty-two hens, eighteen chicks, six turkeys and four pigs.
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