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Moraga died in San Francisco in 1785 and was buried in the floor in front of the altar in Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) in 1791. Legacy [ edit ] Streets in San Francisco, California are named after José Joaquín Moraga and fellow Spanish explorers (de) Anza, (de) Argüello, Balboa and Cabrillo.
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 until 1994, was founded in ...
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. Life.
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 ...
When José Joaquin de la Santisima Trinidad Moraga was born on 28 May 1793, in Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Monterey, California, United States, his father, Gabriel Antonio Moraga, was 29 and his mother, Ana María Bernal De Soto, was 24.
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“Founder of San Francisco”. In 1777, Moraga founded a second mission, Santa Clara Mission, and in 1778 founded the pueblo of San Jose. In 1781, his family joined him in Los Angeles and by 1785 Jose Joaquin Moraga had died at the age of 44. He is buried at Mission Dolores
The California State plaque near the front door of the adobe reads as follows: “The Joaquin Moraga Adobe—1841: Jose Joaquin Moraga—member of the Juan Bautista De Anza 1776 expedition, founder and first commandante of the Presidio of San Francisco—was the grandfather of Joaquin Moraga who with his cousin Juan Bernal was awarded this grant in 1835...
