Archives
The Web de Anza Archives contain ten primary source documents. That is, journals, diaries, and letters which are eyewitness accounts from the Spanish Colonial era. These sources are both available in transcriptions from the original Spanish and English translations.
The center piece of the archive is the Diary of Juan Bautista de Anzacompiled from records of his 1775-6 Colonizing Expedition to bring settlers from Sonora to San Francico Bay. Anza's account is supported by a large collection of definitions, explanations, identifications, maps, and pictures which you can access by clicking on words in the text and from indexes available from the Resources Page. You can also jump directly from any entry in Anza's Diary directly to entries for that same day written by either Father Pedro Font or Father Francisco Garcés, who accompanied Anza on the journey.
The other sources in the Archive provide background and supporting material helpful in understanding the Colonizing Expedition. Especially important to this is the account by Don Josef Joachin Moraga of the actual founding of the Presido at San Francisco.
Links to each of the primary source documents are below:
Portolá Expedition, 1769-70 Diaries
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Miguel Costansó, July 14, 1769 - February 7, 1770 | English | Calendar Index | español | Calendar Index | |
Gaspar de Portolá, May 11, 1769, to January 24, 1770 | English | ||||
Pedro Fages July 14, 1769 to January 24, 1770 | English |
Anza Exploratory Expedition, 1774 Diaries
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Juan Bautista de Anza, January 8 - May 27, 1774 | English | Calendar Index | español | Calendar Index | |
Francisco Garcés, January 6 - July 10, 1774 | English | Calendar Index | español | Calendar Index |
Anza Colonizing Expedition, 1775-76 Diaries
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Juan Bautista de Anza, October 23, 1775 - June 1, 1776 | English | Calendar Index | español | Calendar Index | |
Pedro Font, September 28, 1775 - June 2, 1776 | English | Calendar Index | español | Calendar Index | |
Pedro Font Expanded, September 28, 1775 - June 2, 1776 | English | Calendar Index | español | Calendar Index | |
Francisco Garcés, October 21 - December 4, 1775 | English | Calendar Index | español | Calendar Index | |
Letters
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Juan Bautista de Anza to Viceroy Bucarelli, October 20, 1775 | English | ||||
Don Josef Joachín Moraga, |
English | español |
Anza Comanche Campaign, 1779 Diaries
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Juan Bautista de Anza, August 15 - September 10, 1779 | English | español |