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Mar 31, 2011 · Joaquin de la Santisima Trinidad Moraga, who called the adobe home, was the third generation of one of California’s most notable pioneer families. Grandfather Moraga – Jose Joaquin – was second in command to Captain Juan Bautista de Anza on his 1775 expedition to the California missions. Moraga was 34 at the time.
Excerpted from MHS Newsletter 2022 Q1. Early Moraga family history in Alta California (Susan Sperry) Joaquin Moraga’s grandfather, Lieutenant Don Jose (Joseph) Joaquin Moraga, only 5 feet 2 inches tall, was courageous and brave in battle, in charting unexplored lands and defending new colonies against Indian attacks.
In March 1775, Anza assumed the responsibility of recruiting families and organizing supplies for this first colonizing expedition to Alta California. He spent many months preparing the newly recruited families for the difficult journey. Then, on October 23, 1775, the group left Tubac. For nearly five months they traveled by horseback, mule ...
The Mission was founded on June 29, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóu (a companion of Father Junipero Serra), both members of the de Anza Expedition, which had been charged with bringing Spanish settlers to Alta (upper) California, and evangelizing the local Natives, the Ohlone.
The first church in San Francisco was the little tule arbor built by the Spanish soldiers on the site where later the Mission Dolores was constructed. It was on June 29, 1776, that the first services were conducted here. Lieut. Jose Joaquin Moraga with a little band of soldiers and colonists left Monterey Presidio June 17, 1776, for San ...
Moraga was made a lieutenant in 1818 and transferred to the Santa Barbara presidio (military post). He died on June 15, 1823, at Santa Barbara. Gabriel Moraga was a Spanish explorer. During the early 1800s he traveled through much of inner California. He explored many rivers and the Sacramento and San Joaquin….
the colony took shape as Moraga assumed the leadership inherited from the departed Anza, and led the company of soldier-settlers and their families, servants and two priests, north to the bay of San Francisco. Father Palou recorded the story and listed the founders as:12 Lieutenant Don Jose Joaquin Moraga, a sergeant, two corporals,
