title: Patricio Colón
text: # Patricio Colón
  
  Patricio Colón was Mayor of the city of Ponce in 1838.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Colón was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, around 1793. In 1838 he was an hacienda owner in Barrio Vayas, and owned five slaves. He married Marcelina Manfredi y Figueroa, with whom he had five children: Angela (ca. 1810) Joseph (ca. 1820), Joseph de Jesus (ca. 1824), Carmen (ca. 1826), and Eduviges (ca. 1829).
  
  