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Lieut Don Jose Joaquin Moraga. Founder of San Francisco. An officer in the Spanish army, Lieutenant Don Jose Joaquin Moraga arrived in California as second in command to Juan Bautista de Anza during Anza's expedition to the area.
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.
The body of the founder of the Mission and Royal Presidio of San Francisco, Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga, was laid to rest in the previous mission church after his death on July 13, 1785.
Mar 31, 2011 · Moraga made several trips to Fort Ross in 1812, 1813 and 1814. Gabriel Moraga died in 1823 and is buried in the cemetery of the Santa Barbara mission. Gabriel’s son, Joaquin, served with his father in the army for 10 years, resigning his commission in 1819.
In June 1776, the colonists, led by Anza’s second in command, Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga, were given permission to continue their journey to San Francisco Bay and build there the presidio and mission for which the colonists had left their homeland.
Feb 21, 2012 · Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga, with 14 settlers and their families arrived in the Santa Clara Valley to found El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe on November 29, 1777. Erected 1977 by State Department of Parks and Recreation/San Jose Historic Landmarks Commission.
Jul 7, 2014 · Lt. Jose Joaquín Moraga founded Pueblo de San Jose in 1777. More than 200 years later, his portrait hangs in the biggest library of the 10th largest city in the nation. Two jackasses were found lollygagging down by the river.
