MORAGA, Jose Joaquin

1741 - 1785  (44 years)

• Name	MORAGA, Jose Joaquin
  Birth	1741	Mexico   [1]
  Christening	1741	Mexico
  Gender	Male
  Military	1776	San Francisco, Alta California   [2]
  	Member of 1775-76 Anza Expedition
  Death	13 Jul 1785	San Francisco, Alta California   [3]
  Burial	15 Jul 1785	Mission San Francisco Dolores, Alta California   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I11575	1. Schwald - WA-NY-OR-TX
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2012

  
  

  Family	DE LEON, Maria del Pilar,   b. Bef. 1757, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico d. Oct 1808, San Francisco, Alta California (Age ~ 51 years)
  Marriage	Bef. 1768	Mexico
  Children	+ 1. MORAGA, Gabriel Antonio,   b. Abt. 1767, Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico d. Jun 1823, Santa Barbara, Alta California (Age ~ 56 years)
  Family ID	F3864	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2012

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1741 - Mexico Christening - 1741 - Mexico Marriage - Bef. 1768 - Mexico Military - Member of 1775-76 Anza Expedition - 1776 - San Francisco, Alta California Death - 13 Jul 1785 - San Francisco, Alta California Burial - 15 Jul 1785 - Mission San Francisco Dolores, Alta California  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S003] Granville W. and N.C. Hough, Alta Cal 1774 - 1780 - WHO CAME, WHO STAYED, (SHHAR Press - www.southcoastsar.org/borderlandstudies/BOOK_2.PDF). BIRTH YEAR: See 1775-76 Anza Expedition [S003] Granville W. and N.C. Hough, Alta Cal 1774 - 1780 - WHO CAME, WHO STAYED, (SHHAR Press - www.southcoastsar.org/borderlandstudies/BOOK_2.PDF), 1776. 1775-76 ANZA EXPEDITION 1. Ensign José Joaquin Moraga was born in 1741; died in San Francisco and was buried July 15, 1785, in the mission church whose corner stone he laid in 1782. Moraga was an able assistant to Anza and received his commission as lieutenant on the arrival of the expedition at San Gabriel. He accompanied his commander on the survey of the peninsula and river of San Francisco, and on Anza's departure for Mexico, took command of the expedition. He founded the presidio and mission of San Francisco and was the first commander, retaining the position until his death nine years later. He founded the mission of Santa Clara in 1777, and in the same year the pueblo of San José Guadalupe (San José). His record as an officer is an honorable and stainless one. His wife was María del Pilar de Leon y Barcelo. She did not accompany the expedition, being sick in Terrenate at the time, but with her son Gabriel, joined her husband in San Francisco February 20, 1791, the government paying the cost of transportation: three hundred and eighty dollars and twenty-five cents. The only child of Moraga I find any record of was his son Gabriel, born at the presidio of Fronteras, Sonora, in 1765; buried in Santa Barbara, California, June 15, 1823; married, first, Ana María, daughter of Juan Francisco Bernal; second, Joaquina, daughter of Francisco Javier Alvarado, and sister of Pio Pico's wife. Don Gabriel enlisted in the San Francisco company December 1, 1783, and served for twenty-two years as private, corporal, and sergeant, at the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey and in command of various mission escoltas of those districts. On March 10, 1806, he received his commission as alférez and was assigned to the San Francisco garrison. On August 16, 1811, he was made brevet lieutenant for gallantry in a battle with the Indians on the strait of Carquines, and on October 30, 1817, he was made a full lieutenant and ordered to Santa Barbara. His hoja de servicios of December 1820, shows thirty-seven years service and forty-six expeditions against the Indians. He applied for retirement on account of chronic rheumatism and other infirmities, and Governor Sola, Captain José Darío Argüello, and other officers, as well as padres Señan and Payeras, testified in terms of highest praise regarding his character and the value of his services, but no attention was paid to his request. In 1806 Moraga explored and named the San Joaquin river and he made a number of expeditions to and beyond the Tulares. Don Gabriel is described as a tall, well built man of dark complexion, brave, gentlemanly, and the foremost soldier of his day in California. His son Joaquin, was grantee of Rancho Laguna de los Palos Colorados in Contra Costa county, and a portion of Moraga valley on said rancho is still in possession of his descendants. Another son, Vicente, was grantee of Pauba in Riverside county. [S011] Early California Population Project, Alta Cal Msn Bk #00_1770-1855_Bur, (huntington.org), http://missions.huntington.org/DeathData.aspx?ID=64986. DEATH 13 Jul 1785 JOSEPH JOAQUIN MORAGA **NOTE More info on web site [S003] Granville W. and N.C. Hough, Alta Cal 1774 - 1780 - WHO CAME, WHO STAYED, (SHHAR Press - www.southcoastsar.org/borderlandstudies/BOOK_2.PDF), 1776. BURIAL See 1775-76 Anza Expedition [S031] Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores) or Real Presidio of San Francisco, Alta Cal Msn Bk #18_1776-1851_Sn Frn (Dol)_Bur, (Thomas Workman Temple III). BURIAL #141) Jul. 15 1785 - Ygla. MiSan - Dn JOSEF JOAQUIN MORAGA, The Theniente Capitan y Comandte. del Presidio de San Francisco c.c. Dna Maria del Pilar Leon y Barcelo; murio el dia 13 y fue sepultado en la Yglesia de esta MiSan Fr. Francisco Palou