Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vicente Sebastián Pintado

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1774

Place of Birth: Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain

Date of Death: 20-Aug-1829

Profession: engineer, military officer, land surveyor, cartographer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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 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 lived more than 35 years in the Americas (25 of them in Louisiana and Florida) and 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.