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After a devastating measles epidemic that reduced the mission population by one quarter in 1806, people from more distant areas and new language groups began to join the Mission San Jose community. The first such language group was the Yokuts or Yokutsan, whose speakers began to move to Mission San José from the San Joaquin Valley in 1810.
1803 – San Jose de Guadalupe church built. [2] 1805 – Mission San Jose's church built in 1805, not 1803, and named La Mission del Gloriosisimo Patriarch San Jose, or just Mission San Jose, but not San Jose de Guadalupe according to San Jose Mission's history page. [3] 1809 – Mission San Jose's church completed and dedicated. [4]
Estanislao was the alcalde of the community before he left the mission with about 400 followers in 1827. Juan Bojorques describes Estanislao in his Recuerdos sobre la historia de California (1887) as "about six feet tall, his skin was more white than bronze, he was very muscular like a horse". [1]
Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo is an historic Catholic mission in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The mission was named in part for the Marquis de San Miguel de Aguayo, José de Azlor y Virto de Vera. Many buildings on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, borrow architectural elements from those found at Mission ...
Mission San José may refer to: Mission San José (California), a Spanish mission in Fremont, California; Mission San Jose, Fremont, California, a neighborhood; Mission San Jose High School, a high school in Fremont, California; Mission San José (Texas), a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas; Misión San José de Comondú, Baja California Sur
Two months later, on November 21, foreman Juan de Figueroa arrived from Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac with news of the Pima Revolt, led by Oacpicagigua. The natives fled the mission, and Garrucho followed. He stopped at Mission Santa María Suamca, where he heard de la Cruz's confession, before taking refuge at San Felipe. He subsequently ...
He spent his early years as a soldier and explorer, serving in the Spanish army of Nueva España, 1810–1827, then from 1827 to 1835 was mayordomo, or administrator, at the Mission San José. He was granted 4,400 acres of Mission land in 1835, which he named Rancho San Ramon. [2] [3] Amador was married three times and had 22 children.
In 1847, he began farming in the vicinity of Mission San Jose. Although he briefly tried mining in 1848, he realized that there was more potential in farming. By 1849, he was making a profit at selling his produce. He was also connected with early agricultural fairs in California designed to encourage others to be involved in growing produce.