09/28/1775
REMARKS[Footnote 2]? As a consequence of the first journey which the Lieutenant colonel Don Juan Bautista de Anza made by way of the Colorado River to Monterey in the year 1774, in company with the reverend father preacher Fray Juan Díaz and the reverend father preacher Fray Francisco Garcés, it was decided in Mexico to make this second expedition and journey, the better to explore the country, and especially to conduct thirty families of married soldiers to the port of Monterey, in order by means of them to settle and hold the famous port of San Francisco. Of these soldiers eight besides the lieutenant and sergeant were to be veterans of the presidios of Sonora, the remaining twenty to be recruits. Señor Anza recruited them between Culiacán and Sinaloa, and they were assembled at the royal presidio of San Miguel de Orcasitas, having passed through the mission of San Joseph de Pimas, where I was serving as minister, on the 26th of May of the year 1775. Captain Anza likewise passed through there on the 23d of the same month, and I agreed to join him whenever it should be time to begin the journey.