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Soldiers (accompanied by their families) who escorted
Pobladores to El Pueblo de Los Angeles. Some of the soldiers who accompanied the Pobladores and other settlers from
Mexico to Alta California, also settled in California, some became prominent citizens,
large Spanish landgrant owners, commanders of the Presidios in California, and even a
governor. These soldiers were later assigned to the Presidios in San Diego, Santa Barbara,
Monterey, and San Francisco. In Los Angeles alone their was 71 people including soldiers,
settlers and their children.
- Corporal Jose Vicente Feliz, born about 1741, at Alamos, Sonora, Mexico,
where he married Maria Ygnacia Manuela Pinuelas in 1758, and where their six children were
born. He came to Alta California with the Anza Expedition in
1775. On the way to Ca. near Tubac, Mexico,on the Anza Trail, their son,
Jose Antonio was born, but his wife, Maria Ygnacia died in childbirth. She was buried in
Nov.1775 at San Xavier del Bac Mission, Sonora Mexico. The child, Jose Antonio arrived
safely along with his brothers and sisters with the Expedition at the San Gabriel Mission
on January 4,1776, but he died nine months later. Another son, Jose de Jesus Feliz, born
about 1764, at Alamos, Sonora, Mexico, married Maria Celia Bonifacia de Cota,(daughter of
Roque Jacinto de Cota and Juana Maria Verdugo) born about1759, at the Royal Presidio of
Loreto, Baja California,
- Private Pablo Antonio de Cota, born about 1744, at the Presidio of El Fuerte,
Sinaloa, Mexico, the son of Andres Cota and Angela de Leon. He married Rosa Maria de Lugo
on 30th November, 1776, at the San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Mission, Alta California. Pablo
Antonio de Cota served as a Soldado(soldier) de Cuera of the 1769 Portola Expedition to
the Bay of Monterey, Alta California, accompanying Sargeant Jose Francisco de Ortega and
Father Junipero Serra. He served as a corporal at the San Antonio Mission from 1778 to
1779. Escort for the Pobladores on Sept.4th 1781 to the Pueblo de Los Angeles, and
sergeant of the escolta at San Buenaventura Mission from 1782 to 1787.
In 1788, he was promoted to alferez
(sub-lieutenant/teniente), and retired to Santa Barbara where he died on December 30,
1800. Rosa Maria de Lugo died January 9, 1797 and was buried at the Santa Barbara Mission.
They had nine children with their first born at the San Antonio Mission, the others born
at Missions and Presidio's of Monterey, San Gabriel, and Santa Barbara in Alta California.
- Private Roque Jacinto de Cota, born about 1724, at El Fuerte, Sinaloa,
Mexico, the eldest son of Andres de Cota and Angela de Leon. He married Juana Maria
Verdugo, born about 1740, at the Loreto Mission a small fishing port in Baja, Ca.He died
on Sep.29, 1798, in San Fernando, Alta California, she died May 13, 1835, in Los Angeles,
California.
Roque Jacinto de Cota
served as an escort for the Pobladores from the San Gabriel Mission to El Pueblo de La
Reina de los Angeles on Sept. 4, 1781. He is the founder of the older Cota family in Alta
California.
- Private Francisco Salvador de Lugo, born about 1740, at Villa de
Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Mexico. He married Juana Maria Rita Martinez, born about 1745, at Villa
de Sinaloa, Sinaloa Mexico. She was the daughter of Jose Maria Martinez and Maria Josefa
Vianazul. He died on May 16, 1805 in Santa Barbara, she died on March 23,1790, in Santa
Barbara. His daughter, Rosa Maria de Lugo, born about 1760, at Villa de Sinaloa, Sinaloa,
Mexico, married Pablo Antonio de Cota on November 30,1776, at the Mission San Luis Obispo,
Alta California.
He was recruited
by Captain Rivera in 1774 and arrived at the San Gabriel Mission in 1775. He was stationed
in San Luis Obispo and the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara until 1781, when he served as
an escort from the San Gabriel Mission to El Pueblo de Los Angeles on September 4, 1781.
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Founding Families of El Pueblo De La Reina De Los Angeles, names and
backround histories.
- Jose Fernando de Velasco y Lara, born about 1731 at the Port of Cadiz, Spain
and came to Mexico about 1750. He used the name of Lara when he was in Alta California. He enlisted on June 24 1780, at the Villa de Sinaloa,
Mexico; and about 1774, he was married to Maria Antonia Campos in Cosala, near the Villa
de Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Mexico. Tn this marriage, there were two girls and a boy born at the
Villa de Sinaloa. He arrived at the San Gabriel Mission on July 22, 1781, and he was a
poblador at the founding of El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles, Sept. 4, 1781.
Jose Fernando Lara, and two other
pobladores, Antonio Mesa and Luis Quintero, petitioned the governor of Alta California, to
leave the pueblo; and they left on March 21, 1782. Mesa probably returned to Mexico, while
Lara and Quintero went on to establish the San Buenaventura Mission (Ventura), they moved
to help establish the new Santa Barbara Presidio under Lieutenant Jose Francisco de
Ortega, in August of 1782.
Lara had understood that his first
wife, Barbara Antonia Bravo had died, so he remarried, but he had been misinformed. It was
his sister-in-law who had died, se he was sent back to Nayarit, Mexico, because of this
situation. He did not return to Alta California, he died about 1783. His children by his
second wife stayed in Santa Barbara with their mother; Maria Antonia Campos later
remarried about 1784, to Luis Gonzaga de Lugo.She died on January 24, 1791.
- Jose Cesario Moreno, born August 27, 1757, at Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico. He
enlisted on Sept.2, 1780 at Rosario, where he married Maria Guadalupe Gertrudis Perez
(Nieto). She was born about 1762, and was married Sept. 18, 1780 at Rosario, where he
married Maria Guadalupe Gertrudis Perez (Nieto). She was born about 1762, and was married
on September 18, 1780, at the age of 18. He came to the San Gabriel Mission on July 22,
1781, and was a poblador at the founding of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Sept. 4, 1781.
Jose Cesario Moreno was listed as a
farmer at Los Angeles in 1790 and later as a regidor (councelman of Los
Angeles.
Jose Cesario Moreno died on May 10,1806, and was buried at the San Gabriel Mission, Maria
Guadalupe Gertrudis Perez (Nieto) lived to be almost 100 years old; she remarried Pedro
Jose Perez (Nieto) of Quefugilla, Mexico.
She died about 1860 and was the last
survivor of the pobladoers of El Pueblo de Los Angeles. She was a relative (sister) to
Jose Manuel Perez-Nieto, who was first mentioned as a soldier of the Presidio of Monterey,
in 1773, he served as an escort for the pobladores to San Diego in August 1781, and was
the third Spanish land grantee on the Rancho Los Nietos, a 300,000 acre ranch in Los
Angeles, the largest land grant given during the Spanish regime. Ater his death , his
ranch was divided up to his, Maria Teresa Morillo, who died at the age of 60 years old,
and was buried on September 21,1816, at the San Gabriel Mission.He had four children, one
being the owner of Rancho Los Cerritos in Long Beach, a part of the Cota-Temple family of
the early 1800's. Jose Manuel Perez Nieto, died at the age of 56, and was buried on
December 13,1804, at the San Gabriel Mission.
- Jose Antonio Navarro, was born about 1737 at Real del Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico,
where on 1762, he married Maria Regina Dorotea Glorea de Soto and where his three children
were born. He enlisted on 21 August 1780, as a 'maestro Sartre' (master tailer); a year
later he arrived at the San Gabriel Mission on 18 August 1781.
On 4 September 1781,
he was a poblador at the establishment of the E1 Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles. His
wife died four years later on 16 February 1785 and was buried at the San Gabriel Mission,
Los Angeles, Alta California. His son, Jose Maria Eduardo Navarro, was the sexton at the
Los Angeles Plaza Church in the 1830's and 1840's. His other son, Jose Clemente Navarro,
married Maria del Carmen Rochin on 15 May 1791, at the San Gabriel Mission. His daughter,
Mariana Josefa Navarro was married on 30 October 1791, at the Santa Clara Mission to Juan
Jose Faustino Higuera and died on 17 March 1812 and buried on 18 March 1812, at the
Mission Dolores, San Francisco. Jose Antonio
Navarro lived in
Los Angeles until 1790, when he was sent to the Pueblo de San Jose and later assigned to
the Presidio of San Francisco. He died at the age of 53 years old, and was buried on 3
September 1793, at the Mission Dolores, San Francisco, Alta California.Jose Clemente
Navarro, born about 1772, at Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico, the son of Jose Antonio Navarro and
Maria Regina Dorotea Glorea de Soto. Jose Clemente Navarro was also a leather jacket
soldier, assigned to the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara and later assigned to the La
Purisima Mission in 1791. He died on 15 July 1807 and was buried at the San Gabriel
Mission on 16 July 1807. Maria del Carmen Rochin, born about 1778, at Los Alamos, Sonora,
Mexico, died at the age of 74 years old, and was buried on 14 December 1862, at the Los
Angeles Plaza Church, Los Angeles, California.
- Luis Manuel Quintero , was born
about 1726, at Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He enlisted on 3 February 1760, at Los
Alamos, Sonora, Mexico, was the last pobladore to sign up with Captain Rivera; he arrived
at the San Gabriel Mission on 22 July 1781. About 1760, at Los Alamos, Sonora, Mexico, he
married Maria Petra Rubio, who was born about 1741, at Los Alamos, she later died and was
buried on 3 March 1802, at the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara, Alta California.
At the age of 55 years old, he
requested to leave E1 Pueblo de los Angeles, and was granted this request on 21 March
1782, six months after the founding of the pueblo. He too was a Sartre (tailor) by trade
and not a farmer. He joined Jose Fernando de Velasco y Lara for the founding of the
Mission San Buenaventura (Ventura, California), and the founding of the Royal Presidio of
Santa Barbara in August 1782, under the command of Lieutenant Jose Francisco de Ortega,
and Antonio Mesa returned to Mexico. He was joined by his wife, Maria Petra Rubio, and his
seven children, all of whom were born at Los Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. Three of the girls
married soldiers in the 1781, Rivera Expedition t° Alta California, the other
children married and lived in Santa Barbara. Luis Manuel Quintero died on 16 January 1810,
in Santa Barbara.
Their son, Jose Clemente Quintero,
born about 1778, married Maria Josefa Andrea Rodriguez, the daughter of Jose Ygnacio
Rodriguez and Juana Paula de la Cruz Parra all of Los Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. Their
daughter, Maria Dolores Sixtra Quintero, married the grandson of Lieutenant Jose Francisco
de Ortega on 10 August 1823, at the Mission La Purisima, Alta California.
Through his fifteen year old
daughter, Maria Fabiana Sebastiana Quintero who on 21 January 1781, married Private
Eugenio Valdez, a soldier of the 1781 Rivera Expedition to California, and their daughter
Maria Rita Valdez who in 1808, married ¥icente Ferrer Villa (a six year old in 1781), who
became the owners of the Rancho Rodeo de las Augas, or what is now known as Beverly Hills,
Los Angeles, California.
Their adopted daughter, Maria
Gertrudis Castelo, born about 1765, to Nicolas Castelo and Rita Gertrudis Valenzuela, came
to the Mission San Gabriel with them after her parents died. On 12 November 1782, she
married Domingo Aruz, a Catalan volunteer from Spain to the Pueblo de la Reina de los
Angeles in 1781.
Pablo Rodriguez ,was born
about 1755, at Real de Santa Rosa, Sinaloa, Mexico. He enlisted in 1780 at Rosario,
Sinaloa, Mexico, and arrived at the San Gabriel Mission in July 1781, with his wife, Maria
Rosalia Noriega and one daughter, Maria Antonia Rodriguez, who was born about 1780, at
Real de Santa Rosa, Sinaloa, Mexico, on June 1, 1794, she married Juan Patricio Ontiveros,
the son of Jose Antonio Ontiveros and Ana Maria Carrasco y Briviescas, at the San Gabriel
Mission. Nine additional children were baptized at the San Gabriel Mission, but out of the
ten children, only four lived to maturity.
After his retirement, Pablo
Rodriguez moved to San Diego where he was the mayordomo (foreman) at the San Diego Mission
in 1790, and the mayordomo of the San Juan Capistrano Mission in 1813. He died at the age
of 61 years old, and was buried on 30 April 1816, at the San Juan Capistrano Mission, and
Maria Rosalia Noriega died at the age of 69 years old, and was buried on 8 May 1824, at
the San Gabriel Mission.
Jose Antonio Basilio Rosas ,was born about
1730, near Durango, Mexico. He was married about 1761 at Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico, to
Maria Manuela Calixtra Hernandez, and where seven of his children were born. He was an
albanil (mason) by trade. He enlisted on 6 September 1780, at Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico,
and arrived at the San Gabriel Mission on 22 July 1781 with the Rivera Expedition to Alta
California. Three other children were born at the San Gabriel Mission, and where most of
them were married and lived. His son, Poblador Jose Alejandro Rosas died in 1789, whose
wife, Juana Maria Rodriguez had died the year before in 1788, and their children were
reared by their grandparents.
Jose Antonio Basilio Rosas died and was buried at the San Gabriel Mission in 1809.
Jose Maria Vanegas was born
about 1753, at Real de Bolanos, Jalisco, Mexico. He enlisted on 11 August 1780, at
Rosario, SinMoa, Mexico; and a year later, he arrived at the San Gabriel Mission with his
first wife, Maria Bonifacia Maxima Aguilar, and their only child, Cosme Damien Vanegas,
born about 1780, at Sinaloa, Mexico. Maria Aguilar died on 3 January 1801,
Jose Maria Vanegas had the distinction of being the first known alcalde (major) of Los
Angeles from about 1786 to 1788 and again in 1796. After his first wife died in 1801, he
went to San Diego and perhaps to the San Luis Rey Mission, where he became the mayordomo
(foreman). He was married the second time on 8 November 1821, at the age of
forty-eight years old, to Maria Victoria Valdez. He must have been a compassionate man, as
Victoria was unwed and eight months pregnant. Two years later, Jose Vanegas and Maria
Victoria Valdez had their own baby girl, anmed Maria Francisca Vanegas, born on 26 April
1823, at the Mission San Diego, who married Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez on 8 May 1841. Maria
Victoria Valdez, was the daughter of Francisco Valdez, a Catalan Volunteer to California,
and to Maria Josefa Leyba, she was born on 23 December 1801, at the Mission San Diego,
where she married Jose Vanegas, a grandson of Jose Maria Vanegas.
Antonio Clemente Feliz
Villavicencio, was born about 1751, at Chihuahua, Mexico. He was married
at Chihuahua, Mexico to Maria de los Santos Flores, who was born about 1755, at E1 Real de
Batapilas, Chihuahua, Mexico. He enlisted on 30 May 1780 at the Villa de Sinaloa, Mexico,
and arrived at the San Gabriel Mission on 22 July 1781. Their only child, Maria Geronima,
was baptized on 3 October 1781, at the San Gabriel Mission, and being the FIRST child
born of the Los Angeles settlers. She died five months later on 4 March 1782. Poblador
Villacicencio left for Santa Barbara about 1797, where he died in 1802. Maria de los
Santos Flores, died on 16 September 1829, and was buried at the Santa Barbara Mission.
Antonio Clemente Feliz Villavicencio and his wife had brought with them an adopted
daughter to Alta California. She was the orphan, Maria Antonia Josefa Pineulas, who was my
great-grandmother. She was born about 1773, at the La Villa de Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Mexico,
the daughter of Francisco Pinuelas and Maria Alcaraz. Vicente Quijada married Juana Maria
Armenta (Landera) about 1779, she died on 26 July 1783, and in 1785, he married Maria
Antonia Josefa Pinuelas, at the San Gabriel Mission.
Manuel Camero
Jose Alejandro Basilio Rosas
This information supplied to Los Pobladores members by Marie E. Northrup
in 1991.
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Some of the soldiers who
accompanied the Pobladores from Mexico to Alta California, and other settlers who
came to Alta California, became prominent citizens, large Spanish landgrant owners,
commanders of the presidios in California, and even a governor of the California's. These soldiers were later assigned to the Presidio's in San Diego, Santa
Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco, Alta California, for a total of 71 settlers and
soldiers, plus children to Los Angeles.
Additional soldiers who
accompanied the Pobladores from Mexico to the San Gabriel Mission in 1781, included:
Captain Rivera,
Maxime Alanis,
Ildefonso Dominguez
Isidro German,
Felipe Gonzales
Jose Julian Guerrero,
Josto Lorenzo Hernandez,
Juan Antonio Ibarra
Manuel Ygnacio Lugo
Juan Matlas Olivas
Jose Antonio entireres
Jose Polanco,
Joaquin Rodriguez,
Juan Maria Romere,
Francisco Xavier Sepulveda
Eugenio Valdez
Jose Manuel Valenzuela
Juan Jose Villalobe.
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Other officers and
soldiers who accompanied Captain River from Mexico to Alta California in 1781, included:
Jose del Carmen Arana,
Jose Prudencio Arangure,
Jose Dario ArgueIlo (later
Captain, commander of the Presidio of Santa Barbara),
Francisco Xavier Caibo,
Jose Xavier Cortes,
Jose Miguel Espinosa,
Juan Victorino Feliz,
Jose Rosaline Fernandez,
Diego Gonzales,
Francisco Juarez,
Agustin de Leyba,
Gaspar Lopez
Jose Manuel Machado
Jose Maria Martinez,
Juan Ygnacio Martinez,
Francisco Xavier Mejias
Juan Norberto Mejias,
Pedro Jose Mejias
Juan Andres Hilario
Menriel,
Francisco Ontiveros,
Jose Antonio Basilio
Parra,
Jose Victor Patino
Vicente Quijada,
Ygnacio Rochin,
Jose Ygnacio Rodriguez,
Jose Esteban Rome re
Efigenio Ruiz,
Fructuoso Maria Ruiz,
Jose Pedro Loreto Salazar,
Jose Maria Gil Samaniego,
Jose Tadeo Sanchez (land
owner of the Rancho San Pedro, Pacifica, San Mateo County),
Guillermo Soto,
Jose Melesio Valdez,
Juan Ygnacio Valencia,
Pedro Gabriel Valenzuela,
Segundo Valenzuela,
Jose Antonio Maria Velarde
Juan Jose Villa
Ramon Ybarra.
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