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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.
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. Moraga would be chosen by Anza to lead a group of men who, in 1776, established the first settlements of the town of San Francisco.
José Joaquín Moraga was born on August 22, 1745, at Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi, New Navarre, Viceroyalty of New Spain (in present-day Santa Cruz County, Arizona ). He was the son of Tenzin Moraga. Moraga was second in command to Juan Bautista de Anza in the 1776 overland colonizing expedition from the region of Alta California ...
On June 27, 1776 the colonists under the command of Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga arrived along the shore of Laguna Dolores, near what is now Albion and Camp Streets in the Mission District. Two Franciscan padres, Fray Francisco Palóu and Fray Benito Cambón, accompanied them.
Lieutenant Commander Don Joseph Moraga, a sergeant and sixteen leather jacket soldiers, all married and with large families, seven colonists likewise married and with families, some workmen and servants of the foregoing, herdsmen and muleteers driving the Presidio cattle and the pack train with
Nov 2, 2016 · Quickly realizing the natural benefits that the bay would offer, Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Francisco Palóu settled the Mission on June 29, 1776 – five days before the American colonies declared their independence from the British Empire.
Other articles where José Joaquín Moraga is discussed: 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 ...
