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José Joaquín de la Santísima Trinidad Moraga (22 August 1745 – 13 July 1785), usually simply known as José Joaquín Moraga, was a Spanish colonial expeditionary and soldier who founded San Jose, California, in 1777.
Joaquin Moraga’s grandfather, Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga (1746-1785), was second in command in the De Anza Expedition of 1775, and the founder of the San Franciso Presidio, which served as a fort.
Gabriel Moraga (1765 – June 14, 1823) was a Sonoran-born Californio explorer and army officer. He was the son of the expeditionary José Joaquín Moraga who helped to lead the de Anza Expedition to California in 1774.
Sep 7, 2003 · More than 225 years ago, a group of Spanish explorers gazed over the wide, quiet plain of California's Central Valley, including the corner that would one day become Tracy's sprawling
Jun 27, 2013 · On June 27, 1776, Father Francisco Palou and Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga, accompanied by sixteen Spanish soldiers, led a small party of Spanish-American settlers to the shores of San Francisco...
In 1776, Spanish explorers came to today's San Mateo. During a scouting trip to locate a place to start a colony on the Peninsula, Lieutenant Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza, Padre Pedro Font, Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga, and eleven soldiers set up camp in San Mateo.
ano Vidal; Lieutenant José Joaquín Moraga, Sergeant Juan Pablo Grijalva, the soldiers, colonists, wives, children, muleteers, cattle herders, servants and Indian interpreters.
