father: Antônio Teixeira Franco

mother: Brízida Gomes da Silva

b.: parish of Our Lady of the Pilar [freguesia de N. Sra. do Pilar] of the Congonhas do Sabará, Bishopric [Bispado] of Mariana, [Minas] "Gerais", Brazil, ±1730-40.

bap.: parish of Our Lady of the Pilar [freguesia de N. Sra. do Pilar] of the Congonhas do Sabará, Bishopric [Bispado] of Mariana, [Minas] "Gerais", Brazil, ±1730-40.

d.: Prince Town [Vila do Príncipe], MG, Brazil, 9th/Nov/1786, com solene testamento.

bur.: Prince Town [Vila do Príncipe], MG, Brazil, 9th/Nov/1786 [?].

m.: Tejuco Village [Arraial do Tejuco], MG, Brazil, ±1760.

m.w.: Anna Fortunata da Cunha Pereira (b. Capela de Santo Antônio, Tejuco Village [Arraial do Tejuco], MG, Brazil, ??/nov/1749 [?]; bap. Capela de Santo Antônio, Tejuco Village [Arraial do Tejuco], MG, Brazil, ??/nov/1749; d. Vila do Príncipe [?], MG, Brazil, > 1802), daughter of the Captain of Dragoons Simão da Cunha Pereira, and of Ignácia Mendes Ramos.

education/formation: Possibly he was educated with the "trivium": "First Letters" ["Primeiras Letras"], "Reckoning" ["Contar"] and "Latim". He might have studied "Law" ["Leis"].

profession/activities: He was a lawyer, minner, and famer, in the Prince Town [Vila do Príncipe], MG, Brazil. He has beenn an important Sugar-Mill Landlord [Senhor de Engenho], of the Prince Town [Vila do Príncipe], MG, Brazil, having declared that, between 1780 and 1786, his sugar-mill had not produced any brandy [aguardente]. This same sugar-mill passed to be property of his wife, in the year of 1787, soon after his death.

military service: He was "Captain of Ordenança on foot of the District of the Parish of "Cap.m de Ordenança de Ribeira do Rio Verde Grande, of the Territory of Minas Novas do Arassuahy" [pé do Destr.º da Ribeira do Rio Verde grande do Tr.º de Minas Novas do Arasuahy"], rank whit which, by death, was substituted, on 15th/Sep/1788, by his son-in-law, Captain (Ordenança) Francisco Pinto Ferreira, married with Brízida Agostinha da Cunha Franco.

politics/public offices: Foi Guarda-Mor (das Minas) da Prince Town [Vila do Príncipe], MG, Brazil.

religion/brotherhoods: He was a roman apostolic catholic.

slaves: Between the years of 1780 e 1783, we found references to eight (8) of his slaves, in three (3) birth and baptism records.

diverse: He possessed many assets, farms and houses, slaves and mines, either in the Tejuco Village [Arraial do Tejuco], MG, Brazil, as also in the Prince Town [Vila do Príncipe], MG, Brazil, as he declares in his testament, which he passed to his wife.

residence: Prince Town [Vila do Príncipe], MG, Brazil.

children: (3 or +): Brízida Agostinha da Cunha Franco, Anna Fortunata da Cunha Pereira Franco (Anninha Nazareth), and Antônio Salustiano da Cunha Franco. He adopted some sons, "exposed" [ "expostos"] (rejected [enjeitados]) (2 or +): Anna [da Cunha Franco?, ou Cândida da Conceição?], and Joaquim [da Cunha Franco?].