Juan Bautista de Anza
Horcasitas - Departure
Yuma Crossing
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
       San Francisco - Arrival   

Our Mission                       

To celebrate the life and times of
Lt. Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza,
Presidial Captain of La Nueva España,
now Mexico, explorer, leader of the
founders of San Francisco, Ca., peace
maker and Governor of New Mexico.

These activities shall include 18th
century Spanish Colonial history, but  
not limited to, as authorized by the
Board of Directors.

Whereas, the Anza Society has held an
"Annual World Conference"  since 1996,
conferences have been held in Arizpe,
Sonora Mexico (the home town of the
Anza Family in America); Monte Vista,
Colorado; San Francisco, Ca;  Pueblo,
Colorado; Salida, Colorado; Yuma,
Arizona; Hermosillo, Sonora; Santa
Barbara, California; Tucson, Arizona;
and in 2010 Magdalena de Kino, Sonora
      Anza's home in New Mexico
                               Courtesy of NMHM
                                    Copyright 1996 - The Anza Society -  All Rights Reserved - Phil Valdez Jr., - Director - Web Facilitator
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Message from the President

Welcome;

We hope you will find our website
interesting and enlightening. The site
will be available to share information
about the organization, its meetings,
upcoming events of other Anza
affilated organizations and of course,
our membership. We hope you will join
us so we may increase interest and
awareness in Juan Bautista de Anza
and Spanish Colonial history. Check
out the membership form and come
and join the fun. Do not hesitate to
e-mail us with your comments and/or
suggestions We look forward to
hearing from and having you join us!

Joe
        Circa 1996                                      The Anza Society - La Sociedad de Anza - Elkarte Anzakoa
Joseph P. Myers, Ph.D
On October 08, 1775 - Father
Font said " At nine thirty in
the morning, after having
said Mass, we traveled six
leagues towards the
northeast and we halted in
the pueblo de Santa Maria
Magdalena, visita de San
Ignacio, at one in the
afternoon."

Source: Father Font's field
notes that he wrote while on
the journey. Archivo General
de la Orden Franciscana
Roma, M/62 Mexici
Missiones 11, fols 177r-257

                                  P.V.
1775 Expedition Tidbit