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The 1775-1776 Expedition. In 1773, Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of the Tubac Presidio in Sonora (now southern Arizona) was commissioned by the Viceroy of New Spain, to find an overland route from Sonora to California. This land route would be a more reliable means for supplying the Spanish outposts in California than the current method of ...
Joaquin Moraga was the grandson of Joseph Joaquin Moraga (b. 1745) an early Spanish explorer in California who founded the Presidio in San Francisco, Mission Dolores, Mission Santa Clara, and the Pueblo of San Jose. In 1835, Joaquin Moraga and his cousin, Juan Bernal, received a land grant from the Mexican government including portions of ...
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's son Gabriel Moraga, born in the northern frontier region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (in present-day southern Arizona), also became a Spanish soldier in Alta California. With the rank of corporal, he became comisionado (governor's representative) at the San Jose pueblo, then was assigned to the same job at the 1797 founding of the ...
6TH-8TH DAILY SCHEDULE. Block Schedule - JM classes occur on a weekly block schedule. Mondays and Thursdays are ODD period days. Tuesdays and Fridays are EVEN period days with an extra Academy period where students enroll in a variety of enrichment opportunities. Wednesday is the ANCHOR DAY, where students attend all 7 classes including Z Period.
Promoting him to lieutenant, San Francisco Presidio. Signed also by José de Galvez, Teodoro de Croix and others. ... Lieutenant commission for José Joaquin Moraga ...
