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	Encyclopedia of San Francisco
		Moraga served as a military officer in the Spanish Army of Mexico and as second in command to Juan Bautista de Anza on Anza's second expedition to the California missions.
		Moraga went on to explore and map portions of the Bay Area with the assistance of members of local tribes of indigenous groups.
		In an unusual gesture of honor, Moraga's remains were disinterred and moved to the sanctuary of the new mission church of San Francisco de Asís on April 8, 1791.
	www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com /articles/m/moragaJose.html (443 words)

	Gabriel Moraga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spanish army officer Gabriel Moraga was one of the first Europeans to explore California's Great Central Valley.
		He is the source of many of the place names in the region, including San Joaquin, Modesto, Sacramento, the Merced River (which he named El Rio Nuestra Senora de la Merced (The River of Our Lady of Mercy)) and Merced, Kings, Mariposa, and Calaveras.
		Moraga led armies of Spanish soldiers through the valley and displaced local Native American groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gabriel_Moraga (116 words)

	More California Mission History: Santa Clara
		Moraga returned with a group of de Anza colonists, who had been waiting at San Gabriel.
		Moraga had received instructions to found a new pueblo close by the mission and this he accomplished without delay.
		Moraga's pueblo has long since been known as the prosperous city of San José but its founding drew little applause from the fearful padres.
	www.californiamissions.com /morehistory/santaclara.html (1119 words)

	history for Moraga California
		Jose Moraga was a distinguished officer and is credited with having founded the San Francisco presidio and mission, and today his grave is located in front of the sanctuary on the floor of Mission Dolores in San Francisco.
		His son, Gabriel, the father of Joaquin Moraga, also distinguished himself in the service by his exploration of the interior regions of Alta California and he was known to be a successful " Indian fighter" and yet a man of compassion in his dealings with the Indians.
		Joaquin Moraga and his cousin, Juan Bernal, occupied the land with their growing families, as was customary in the world of Mexican rancheros.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /cacountymoragahistory.htm (2716 words)

	Mount Shasta Annotated Bibliography - Chapter 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The expeditions were led by Gabriel Moraga in 1808 and Luis Antonio Argüello in 1817 and 1821.
		Moraga's diary from 1808 records his act of assigning the name "Jesús María" to the river now known as the Sacramento River.
		The fact that the Moraga diary of 1808 records the naming of the upper Sacramento as the Jesus Maria indicates the probable correctness of the name Jesus Maria as a place name of far northern California.
	www.siskiyous.edu /shasta/bib/B5.htm (3148 words)

	Town of Moraga official website
		The Town of Moraga is named for Joaquin Moraga, the grandson of Joseph Joaquin Moraga who was second in command of the Anza expedition of 1776, the founder of San Francisco, Mission Dolores and the founder and first commandant of the Presidio.
		Joaquin Moraga, who also served in the military with his father Gabriel Moraga at the Presidio of San Francisco, left the Army in 1819.
		Joaquin Moraga was a cattleman, not a lumber man, so his property in the Redwood Canyon was overrun with trespassers.
	www.ci.moraga.ca.us /moraga_history.php (1135 words)

	Fresno County Sesquicentennial
		In 1805 and 1806, Gabriel Moraga led a series of expeditions into present-day Fresno County to satisfy his curiosity about the region and seek possible new mission sites.
		Moraga sighted the two rivers that form the borders of our County and named them.
		Moraga’s party left Mission San Joaquin Bautista, reached the San Joaquin River near present-day Firebaugh, and headed east to present-day Chowchilla.
	www.fresnocounty150.org /history.asp (819 words)

	San Joaquin Valley History - How The Valle Got Its Name - Virtual San Joaquin of Stockton Lodi Tracy Manteca Modesto ...
		Spanish Army Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga was the first European to explore what is now the interior valley of California.
		Moraga also discovered and named the Calaveras River after finding human skulls at it banks.
		In 1808, Gabriel Moraga ventured in to the central valley from the coastal mission at San Jose to find more potential sites for new Spanish Missions and pursue indians that had fled from San Jose.
	www.virtuallodi.com /history/Moraga.asp (505 words)

	Military Expeditions into the Central Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One of the most active figures in the Spanish exploration of the California interior was Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga.
		His father, José, had come to California in the second of the Anza expeditions and was the first commandante of the San Francisco Presidio.
		Moraga named Mariposa for the butterflies seen in the area, and Calaveras for its many skulls.
	www.californiahistory.net /4_PAGES/presidios_expeditions.htm (147 words)

	Favorite Family Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Died July 13, 1785 and is buried at Mission Delores San Francisco de Asis.
		Jose became the original grantee of the Moraga Rancho in 1841.
		After the ranch was lost, he and his family moved to Oakland.andnbsp; He worked as a street cleaner, then a translater for the courts.
	home.earthlink.net /~dmorago/moragofamilyhistory/id2.html (206 words)

	Pathways: A Story of Trails and Men (1968), “1. Pioneer Trails of the West,” by John W. Bingaman
		In 1774, Anza explored a route across the Colorado Desert to the Sierras, thence to San Jacinto Valley and Mission San Gabriel.
		Moraga made more than forty expeditions to the interior.
		One of Moraga’s corporals of the expedition had one in his ear and mentioned the fact that the butterflies followed them.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /library/pathways/pioneer_trails.html (535 words)

	El Rio Reyes Trust
		Father Pedro Munoz, Moraga’s diarist, recorded the event a year later, in October of 1806, at which time he described the river as follows: “… All the meadows are well covered with oak, alder cottonwood and willow.
		It is a location suitable for a mission, although there would also have to be a presidio.” The expedition briefly explored the river, reporting it to have all the necessary features for a future mission site: fertile soil, water and sufficient aboriginal souls (Yokuts Indians) to convert to Christianity and to work in the fields.
		Today, we have shortened this name to simply Kings River.” Lt. Moraga explored it from where it emerged from Kings Canyon in the upper foothills to the point where it dissolved into the Tulares (or Tule swamp), at the edge of Laguna de Tache, (Tulare Lake).
	www.elrioreyestrust.org /kings_river.html (992 words)

	Welcome to the Merced County CHamber of Commerce Web Site! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		However, a number of raids by the Indians to steal horses from the missions resulted in a military expedition to recover the horses and explore the valley.
		In 1806 Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga and a force of 30 men left San Francisco Presidio and entered the valley over the Pacheco Pass.
		Lt. Moraga reported at the end of the expedition that the "area was unfit for farming" and recommended against establishing a mission or presidio.
	www.mercedcountychamber.com /history.asp (1311 words)

	Sacramento: river and area named by Gabriel Moraga in early 1800's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sacramento: river and area named by Gabriel Moraga in early 1800's
		Urban Sprawl Since Gabriel Moraga arrived at the confluence of two rivers in the early 1800's and gave the name Sacramento, Spanish for holy sacrament, to the river he traveled on and surrounding area, the Sacramento region has become a booming metropolis in Northern California.
		It, like many cities in the Western United States, is expanding at a faster rate than ever before.
	www.ecst.csuchico.edu /~cmarshal/Sacramento1.htm (323 words)

	Bob Burd's Trip Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Gabriel Moraga named the river in 1805 or 1806 for San Joaquin (Saint Joachim), the father of the Virgin Mary.
		Gabriel Moraga gave the name San Joaquin to the river when he reached its southern part in 1805-6, according to Padre Munoz's diary.
		Before and after Moraga's visit, various sections of the river had different names.
	sepwww.stanford.edu /~morgan/snwburd/etymology/san_joaquin_1.html (381 words)

	Merced River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since the Ice Ages, the Merced River has flowed past Livingston, leaving sandy soil in its wake.
		The river was named El Río de Nuestra Señora de la Merced (River of Our Lady of Mercy) in 1806 by an expedition, headed by Gabriel Moraga, which came upon it at the end of a hot dusty ride.
		Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiutes would camp yearly along the Merced River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Merced_River (288 words)

	Mariposa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The poetic name Mariposa, Spanish for “butterfly,” was first applied in this region by members of the Moraga Expedition, to a small stream at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
		The party had left the Mission San Juan Bautista on September 21 of 1806, on an expedition to locate suitable sites for a proposed string of inland missions to parallel those located along the coast.
		The town has a good number of historic structures still intact, and an excellent museum and history center that should not be missed.
	www.malakoff.com /mariposa.htm (845 words)

	Fresno County People & Places
		On January 6, 1805 he named a river that he and his men came to, "Rio de los Santos Reyes," in honor of the Holy Kings, whose feast day it was.
		On March 20, 1805 he named a second river after the saint whose holy day it was, Saint Joachim, the father of the Virgin Mary.
		On his second expedition, which took place the following year, Moraga encountered swarms of yellow butterflies while traveling across what is now Merced County.
	www.cagenweb.com /re/fresno/NEWfresnppl.htm (1476 words)

	Courts In Which We Regularly Practice
		It derived its name from the Kings River which, according to Padre Munoz' diary of the Moraga Expedition of 1806, was discovered in 1805 by an exploring expedition and named Rio de los Santos Reyes (River of the Holy Kings).
		In Kern County it was the Kern River which was named for Edward Kern, topographer of General John C. Fremont's 1845 expedition.
		The county is named for the Stanislaus River, first discovered by Gabriel
	www.jhnmlaw.com /index_files/Page557.htm (272 words)

	San Joaquin Valley History - Padre Felipe Arroyo del la Cuesta - founder of Los Banos - Virtual San Joaquin of Stockton ...
		During his journeys through the San Joaquin Valley in 1805, it is widely believed that Spanish Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga led his Spanish Calvary from the Presidio of San Francisco, through the Pacheco Pass, and into the valley floor near what is present day Los Banos.
		Moraga brought back with him tales of heathen native indians that, in the opinion of the Spanish Army, were slowing down exploration of the valley.
		This led the Spanish Governor of California to order missionaries into the valley to convert the indians.
	www.virtuallodi.com /history/PadreFelipe.asp (581 words)

	Etiwanda History - Dates of Etiwanda, California
		Juan Batista de Anza arrived at San Gabriel.
		Francisco Garces passed through on road to San Gabriel.
		Gabriel Moraga, a Spanish Officer camped in Cucamonga.
	chaffey.org /community/etiwanda/dates_in_the_history_of_etiwanda.html (913 words)

	Pocket Sacramento Real Estate Listings of Houses and Homes for Sale in Sacramento County, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1808, Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga found the Maidu Indians living peacefully in the Northern California valley formed by the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains to the east and the Pacific Coast Mountains to the west.
		Warm summers, mild winters, a dependable yearly rainy season and water from the confluence of two great rivers resulted in a landscape so verdant and abundant that Gabriel Moraga named the valley after the Holy Sacrament—Sacramento.
		Of course, the first growth in this part of California was fueled by the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s.
	www.sacramentopocket-realestate.com /cityprofile.htm (343 words)

	Chapter Three of water paper
		In 1808 Gabriel Moraga led a party of Spanish explorers up the northern half of California's Central Valley.
		One of the great freshwater resources of the world, it annually moved twenty-two million acre-feet (seven trillion gallons) of water from Sierra Nevada snowmelt and coastal range runoff down to the delta at the valley's base, and then westward to San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
		The name Moraga gave the river was the Spanish Catholic term for the sacred expressed in material form: the Sacramento.(1)
	www.colorado.edu /conflict/full_text_search/kathynewhtm/ch3wtpr.htm (9823 words)

	Find in a Library: The diary of Ensign Gabriel Moraga's expedition of discovery in the Sacramento Valley, 1808.
		Find in a Library: The diary of Ensign Gabriel Moraga's expedition of discovery in the Sacramento Valley, 1808.
		The diary of Ensign Gabriel Moraga's expedition of discovery in the Sacramento Valley, 1808.
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/cff35fbede664334.html (81 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions
		It is named for the Stanislaus River whose headwaters rise within Forest boundaries.
		The Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga named the river "Our Lady of Guadulupe" during an 1806 expedition.
		Later, the river was renamed in honor of Estanislao, an Indian leader.
	www.fs.fed.us /r5/stanislaus/faq/index.shtml (1233 words)

	Gabriel Moraga Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Gabriel Moraga Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
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	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Gabriel_Moraga (83 words)

	Chronology of Stanislaus County History
		The Miwoks lived along the eastern side, primarily in the foothills, while the Yokuts lived in the valley.
		Spanish Military officer Gabriel Moraga (son of Jose Joaquin Moraga) explored the inland area and is considered the first European to explore the area to later be known as Stanislaus County.
		He saw the Stanislaus River and named it Rio de Nuestra Senora Guadalupe.
	wwwlibrary.csustan.edu /bsantos/chronology.html (3182 words)

	Sutter Buttes: Maidu's Spirit Mountain
		Rock alignment on a contour break overlooking Peace Valley.
		Gabriel Moraga, a Spaniard trying to locate possible mission sites, was the first European to see the Buttes, in 1806.
		Another Spaniard, Luis Arguello, led an expedition in 1817 to explore Northern California by water.
	www.parks.ca.gov /?page_id=23786 (382 words)

	Welcome to The City Of Los Banos
		The Museum may reached by calling (209) 826-5055.
		The gallant Gabriel Moraga, with his troop of Spanish Calvary from the Presidio of San Francisco came riding through the Pacheco Pass under orders from the Spanish Governor of California to explore the San Joaquin Valley in 1805.
		This jaunty leader and his party on reaching the floor of the valley cantered right across the area where the City of Los Banos now stands.
	www.losbanos.org /info.php (504 words)

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