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Life. José Joaquín Moraga was born on August 22, 1745, at Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi, New Navarre, Viceroyalty of New Spain (in present-day Santa Cruz County, Arizona ). He was the son of Tenzin Moraga. Moraga was second in command to Juan Bautista de Anza in the 1776 overland colonizing expedition from the region of Alta ...
Life. José Joaquín Moraga was born on August 22, 1745, at Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi, New Navarre, Viceroyalty of New Spain (in present-day Santa Cruz County, Arizona). He was the son of Tenzin Moraga. Moraga was second in command to Juan Bautista de Anza in the 1776 overland colonizing expedition from the region of Alta ...
Mar 31, 2011 · Although Moraga sold various portions of his spread, he still owned 5,642 acres when he died in June 1855. After Moraga’s death, various parcels of the ranch were owned by different individuals. In a series of transactions beginning in 1912, most of Moraga’s rancho was eventually owned by James Irvine, founder of the Southern California ...
Other articles where José Joaquín Moraga is discussed: San Francisco: Exploration and early settlement: Settlers from Monterey, under Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and the Reverend Francisco Palóu, established themselves at the tip of the San Francisco peninsula the following year. The military post, which remained in service as the Presidio of San Francisco until 1994, was founded in ...
Jose's son, Gabriel Antonio Moraga, served in the army in California for 40 years, and it was Gabriel's fifth son, Jose Joaquin de la Santisima Trinidad Moraga, who was to become the grantee of the vast Moraga Rancho and the first settler in the Moraga Valley. Joaquin served in the military from 1809 - 1819. Not much is known of Joaquin's ...
“Founder of San Francisco”. In 1777, Moraga founded a second mission, Santa Clara Mission, and in 1778 founded the pueblo of San Jose. In 1781, his family joined him in Los Angeles and by 1785 Jose Joaquin Moraga had died at the age of 44. He is buried at Mission Dolores
Kent Long, President of the Friends of the Joaquin Moraga Adobe, will provide an in-depth look at one of Northern California’s oldest surviving adobe structures. Built between 1841-1848, the Moraga Adobe was the home of Joaquin Moraga, whose grandfather founded both the San Francisco Presidio and the city of San Jose. His father was also an ...
