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1781 Rivera Expedition

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61 memorials

This cemetery contains memorials for identified members of Capitán Fernando Rivera y Moncada's expedition to Alta California to establish el Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles (Sep. 4, 1781), Mission San Buenaventura (Mar. 31, 1782), and the Presidio of Santa Barbara (Apr. 21, 1782). Capitán Rivera recruited 12 families of pobladores and at least 45 soldados in Culiacán and Sinaloa and then assembled them at Real de los Alamos, Sonora, during the Winter of 1780. The first contingent of settlers and 17 soldiers under Lieutenant Zúñiga departed Alamos February 2, 1781, and proceeded to Guaymas to cross the Gulf of California to Loreto. It would follow the Camino Real to San Gabriel, arriving in two groups on June 9 and July 14, 1781. The second contingent departed Alamos in April 1781 for the missions at the Yuma Crossing. When it arrived, Capitán Rivera sent the pobladores and married soldiers with their families on ahead under Lieutenant Ramón Lasso, while he remained at Yuma with the single and unaccompanied soldiers, to guard the livestock herd. The families and married soldiers arrived at Mission San Gabriel on August 18, 1781. However, Capitán Rivera and the unaccompanied soldados all perished during the Quechan uprising on July 17-19, 1781.

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Francisco Javier Calbo

1754 – 25 Jul 1792

1781 Rivera Expedition Francisco Javier Calvo...

Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, USA

Plot info: Chapel

María Ines Campos Calbo

1761 – 31 Jul 1783

1781 Rivera Expedition María Ines Campos y...

Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, USA

Plot info: Chapel

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Nicolas Felipe Cortes

1767 – May 1835

Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, USA

Tomas Gonzalez

1766 – 20 May 1791

1781 Rivera Expedition Muralist Who Painted...

Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California, USA

Plot info: Chapel

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Maria Mariana Josefa Navarro Higuera

1777 – 17 Mar 1812

San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA