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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.
exploration of San Francisco. In 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 ...
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.
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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. So deeply was he esteemed by the Franciscans that when the current church was dedicated in 1791, Moraga's body was reinterred inside the mission close to ...
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. In 1841 Moraga built a two-room adobe home on a hill overlooking what is now the site of Miramonte High School.
Learn about the Moraga family history in San Francisco and Northern California, from the Anza expedition to the Presidios, the missions and the land grants. Find out how José Joaquín Moraga, the second in command of the Anza expedition, is related to explorer Gabriel Moraga, the namesake of the rivers and place names, and the Camarillo and Moraga families.
Lieut. Jose Joaquin Moraga with a little band of soldiers and colonists left Monterey Presidio June 17, 1776, for San Francisco bay to establish both a presidio and a mission here. Father Francisco Palou and Father Pedro Cambon accompanied the expedition as founders of the mission.
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