In 1769, Sergeant Jose Francisco de Ortega, the chief Scout for theGovernor/LT. Colonel Gaspar de Portola Expedition from the Royal Presidio and Port City of Loreto, Baja California traveled to the new Presidio of San Diego, to Monterey, the San Francisco Bay and  Alameda, Alta California, and their return to Loreto in 1770.  Jose Francisco de Ortega was later promoted to Lieutenant and the commandante of the Presidio of San Diego in 1773 to about 1777, then on April 16, 1782, he became the first commander of the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara.  Prior to August 1781, he was waiting at theMission San Gabriel with the soldiers and settlers for the Presidio, but due to illnesses, they did not depart until March 1782, for the Mission San BuenaVentura and to the new Presidio of Santa Barbara.

         In 1773, he was the commander of the San Diego Presidio and during the American Revolution, he helped establish the Missions of San Diego (1769), San Juan Capistrano(1775/1776), San BuenaVentura in 1782, and Santa Barbara in 1786 (in retirement).  In 1798, he died of a Heart Attack on his way to visit his oldest son, Sergeant Jose Maria de Ortega at the Presidio of Santa Barbara,who also arrived in 1782.Sgt. Jose Francisco de Ortega, was born in 1734 in Celaya, Guadalajara,Mexico, and in 1759 at the Mission Loreto, Baja California, he married MariaAntonia Victoria Carrillo, born in 1741, at the Royal Presidio of Loreto,Baja California, who was the daughter of Juan Carrillo, born in 1680, and Lucia Efigenia Miller (Millar) of Spain.Additional relations of Maria Antonia Victoria Carrillo include her brother Jose Raymundo Carrillo, who was the 4th great grandfather of Leopolde (Leo)Carrillo, of Stage, Movie and early Television Fame.  Linda Ronstadt, who was born in 1946 in Tucson, Arizona, and a  popular singer of both Latin and Anglo Music,and is also directly related to Jose Ygnacio Maria de Jesus Lopez,as well as Jose Maria de Ortega and a cousin of mine and many others of early California and Arizona.

         Sergeant Jose Maria de Ortega, born on 14 April 1760, at Tados Santos Sur(Presidio), Baja California, on 13 June 1779 at the Mission San Diego married Maria Francisca Lopez y Mora, who was born in 1763, at the Mission SantaAna, El Sur de la Antique, Baja California, the daughter of Jose YgnacioMaria de Jesus Lopez of Loreto, and of Maria Facunda de Mora of the MissionSantiago de Las Caras, Baja California.  Maria Francisca Lopez was the granddaughter of Andres Lopez and Rosa Soto, who were married in 1723.  Their son, Jose Dolores de Alta Garcia de Ortega, born on 6 February 1804, married on 10 August 1823, at the Mission La Purisima, to Maria Dolores SixtaQuintero, who was born on 27 March 1801, at Santa Barbara, and the parents of Francisca Antonia de Ortega who married William Anthony Breck.In 1781. Luis Manuel Quintero, his wife Maria Petra Rubio and their 7children and one adopted daughter arrived at the Mission San Gabriel from NewSpain (Mexico), after a brief rest, they made their way from the mission toEl Pueblo de los Angeles on 4 September 1781 (Pobladores).   After a few months, Luis Manuel Quintero, requested the governor to leave the pueblo for Santa Barbara and the Presidio.  One of the reasons for his departure, was that he was not a farmer, but a tailor, and a few of his daughters  had married soldiers of the Captain Rivera Expedition and were to continue to both San BuenaVentura and to the new Presidio of Santa Barbara, where he raised the rest of his family.  He was one of the original founders of El Pueblo de los Angeles, along with 10 other families, and 4 soldier escorts and their families.

          The rest of the Anza and Rivera Expeditions from Mexico continued to Monterey, San Jose and  San Francisco.   Their son, JoseClemente Quintero, born in 1778, at Real de los Alamos, Sonora, Mexico,married Maria Josefa Andrea Rodriguez, who was born on 17 October 1786, at the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara.  And their daughter, Maria Dolores Sixta Quintero, married Jose Dolores de Alta Garcia de Ortega. Jose Antonio Secundino Olivera, was born on 1 July 1793, at the MissionSan Gabriel,and  married Maria Antonia de la Asencion (Pegue) Stewart, who was born in 1789, a native of Tahiti, and the daughter of Lieutenant GeorgeStewart.  Jose Antonio Secundino Olivera's parents were Juan Maria Oliveraa nd Maria Guadalupe Briones and the grandson of Martin Olivera and Maria Micaela Carrillo of Loreto, Baja California.  Another son of Juan Maria Olivera and Maria Guadalupe Briones was Ysidoro (Ysidoro) Juan Maria Olivera,who was born on 15 May 1802, at the Mission San Gabriel, and who married Maria Serarina Patrocinto Leyba.  In that marriage, they had a daughter named Maria Francisca Olivera, who was born in 1827 in Santa Barbara, and who married Jose Antonio Francisco Olivera, who was born on 14 February 1824 in Santa Barbara (who were first cousins) and the parents of Maria Antonia de laAsencion Olivera, who was born on 19 July 1856 at the Mission Santa Inez, and who married William Antonio Breck, who was born on 9 July 1852, at theMission San Luis Obispo and the son of William Anthony Breck and Maria Francisca Antonia de Ortega.In May 1813, Maria Antonia de la Asencion Stewart, the daughter of LieutenantGeorge Stewart (Stuart), arrived in the Bodega Bay with her common law husband, Captain George Washington Earys (Ayers).   They were captured alongwith the Frigate Mercury, sent down to San Blas, Baja California, and Captain Ayers departed for help for their release, he was never seen or heard from again.  Maria's maiden name was the same as her mothers on Tahiti, Pegue, but was changed with her baptism in 1815.  In 1817, she married Jose AntonioSecundino Olivera, at the Mission Santa Barbara and raised a family in SantaBarbara and San Luis Obispo areas in (Southern) Alta California.  Lieutenant Stewart was a direct descendant of the House of Stewart of Scotland and England, with additional relations to Robert de Bruce, King of Scotland,Henry V of England and Malcolm I of Scotland.   Lieutenant Stewart was one offour non mutineers of the H. M. S. Bounty, but was not found innocent unti lafter his death in 1791 off the Great Barrier Reef of Australia.In 1829, William Anthony Breck (James William Breck)  was born on 20 October 1800, Dorchester (Boston), Massachusetts, whose family was involved in the American Revolutionary War, and related to John Paul Jones through a second marriage to an aunt.   He arrived in Alta California via the Cape Horn,in 1829, he traveled from Boston, to the Hawaiian Islands (Sandwich Islands),to China, possibly to the Philippines, Guam and South America.  In 1846, he married Francisco Antonia de Ortega, the great-granddaughter of Lieutenant Jose Francisco de Ortega, and due to his political beliefs, he fought in the Mexican War in California, as a Lieutenant/Captain under Lt. Colonel Fremont in the California Battalion.  For these actions, he did not receive a Spanish/Mexican Land Grant, but did live on the Ortega ranch in Santa Barbara.   According to a couple of sources, he may have owned a ranch in SanLuis Obispo before his death in 1877, in Los Angeles. The Breck's (Brecke)arrived in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1632, with the Winthrop Fleet and were by various other marriages, were related to both William Goodwin Dana and to Richard Henry Dana II (Junior), both of Boston/Cambridge,Massachusetts.On 6 November 1885, Rosamond Margaret Breck was born in Santa Barbara, and married Elroy Purl Giffin, who was born on 27 February 1898, in Lincoln,Nebraska, and the parents of Rosamond Essa (Margaret) Giffin, were born in Santa Barbara.  Rosamond Essa Giffin married three times, the first to Ralph Green of Fresno, and they had a daughter, Vivian Essa Green who was born in 1947, the to James Ashley Smith II of Buffalo, New York, who had two children, Robert Elroy Smith and Danelle Ellen Smith.  And two more generations on Danelle's side, and one on mine.  I was also known as JamesAshley Smith IV on a couple of military assignments in Europe in the 1970s.Robert and Danelle are 8th generation Californians and 12th generation Bostonians, and 47th generation Scottish, English, Norman and Irish descent.