Burial Place: Cementerio de la Yglesia del Presidio
Age Level: Adult
Marital Status: Married
Spouse Name: Maria Dolores Valencia
*Note: Decedent has a nuptial blessing, not a marriage record
Military Status: Alferez retirado del dicho Presidio
Residential Status: vecinos del dicho Presidio [San Diego]
Occupation: Ministro de la Mision de San Luis Rey
Officiant: Peyry, Antonio
Recorder: Barona, Josef
SOURCE: Early California Population Project Database, Huntington Memorial Library
From book "Saddleback Ancestors," chapter 6.
Juan Pablo Grijalva had been baptized 2 February 1744 at Mission Guevavi, Arizona, the son of Andres Grijalva and Luisa Maria Leyba. Juan Pablo enlisted in the army at the Terrenate Presidio in Sonora on l January 1763. With him, in the 1775 expedition (Anza expedition), came his wife, Maria Dolores Valencia, aged 31, and their two daughters, Maria Josefa, 6, and Maria del Carmen, 4...his elder daughter, Josefa, married Antonio Yorba in 1782, and his younger daughter, Carmen, married Pedro Regalado Peralta in 1785..Grijalva, after serving ten years in San Francisco was commissioned alferez of the San Diego Company in 1787. In his last year of active service he was sent to inspect the escoltas of Missions San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano, and San Miguel (Baja). In March of 1796 he asked for retirement, claiming 33 years of service at Terrenate, San Francisco, and San Diego. While at Terrenate he had served in nine campaigns against the Apaches and Seris, being wounded twice. At 51 years of age, he was retired on disability at half pay of $200 a year in 1796 with the rank of Teniente, continuing to live in the Presidio of San Diego, where he spent his last years. He was buried there on 23 June 1806. His wife Dolores Valencia was buried 13 August 1833 at San Juan Capistrano...
By the turn of the century, Grijalva was running cattle and horses and had built an adobe near Olive. In a petition signed at San Diego on 8 December 1801, Grijalva asked
"for the Arroyo de Santiago"...With the permission of his widow, the land was regranted to one daughter's husband and another daughter's son. In 1810 the Spanish governor made the official grant to Antonio Yorba with the concession that his nephew, Juan Pablo Peralta was a co-occupant. (Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana)
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Burial Place: Cementerio de la Yglesia del Presidio
Age Level: Adult
Marital Status: Married
Spouse Name: Maria Dolores Valencia
*Note: Decedent has a nuptial blessing, not a marriage record
Military Status: Alferez retirado del dicho Presidio
Residential Status: vecinos del dicho Presidio [San Diego]
Occupation: Ministro de la Mision de San Luis Rey
Officiant: Peyry, Antonio
Recorder: Barona, Josef
SOURCE: Early California Population Project Database, Huntington Memorial Library
From book "Saddleback Ancestors," chapter 6.
Juan Pablo Grijalva had been baptized 2 February 1744 at Mission Guevavi, Arizona, the son of Andres Grijalva and Luisa Maria Leyba. Juan Pablo enlisted in the army at the Terrenate Presidio in Sonora on l January 1763. With him, in the 1775 expedition (Anza expedition), came his wife, Maria Dolores Valencia, aged 31, and their two daughters, Maria Josefa, 6, and Maria del Carmen, 4...his elder daughter, Josefa, married Antonio Yorba in 1782, and his younger daughter, Carmen, married Pedro Regalado Peralta in 1785..Grijalva, after serving ten years in San Francisco was commissioned alferez of the San Diego Company in 1787. In his last year of active service he was sent to inspect the escoltas of Missions San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano, and San Miguel (Baja). In March of 1796 he asked for retirement, claiming 33 years of service at Terrenate, San Francisco, and San Diego. While at Terrenate he had served in nine campaigns against the Apaches and Seris, being wounded twice. At 51 years of age, he was retired on disability at half pay of $200 a year in 1796 with the rank of Teniente, continuing to live in the Presidio of San Diego, where he spent his last years. He was buried there on 23 June 1806. His wife Dolores Valencia was buried 13 August 1833 at San Juan Capistrano...
By the turn of the century, Grijalva was running cattle and horses and had built an adobe near Olive. In a petition signed at San Diego on 8 December 1801, Grijalva asked
"for the Arroyo de Santiago"...With the permission of his widow, the land was regranted to one daughter's husband and another daughter's son. In 1810 the Spanish governor made the official grant to Antonio Yorba with the concession that his nephew, Juan Pablo Peralta was a co-occupant. (Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana)
Contributor: Teresa (50442780)
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