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Note: rried in San Gabriel during 1808. Ysidro, along with several members of the family, died in the Los Angeles smallpox epidemic of 1862. Jacinto Reyes was the son of Francisco Reyes, at one time owner of the San Fernando Valley from about 1790 until 1797 when he relinguished control to the Franciscans so that they could establish San Fernando Mission. Reyes later came to possess a rancho near Lompoc, which had distinction of being the only rancho which the missionaries felt was of benefit to the province of California. Francisco Reyes was a distinguished settler in Los Angeles from 1788 until his death in 1809. He was mayor of the pueblo from 1793 to 1795, and possibly in 1791, with Mariano Verdugo finishing out his term. Francisco Reyes was born abt 1745 in a town called Zapotlan El Grande, located in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, the son of Jose Diaz and Gertrudis Reyes. He seems to have moved to the town of Ahucatlan in the state of Nayarit when he was a young man and, by 1769, he was one of the early settlers of San Blas, Nayarit, where he worked in the shipyard building the ships which were to supply the newly founded province of California. In 1771, Francisco Reyes enlisted in the army which garrisoned California. At that time, there were about 50 leather-armored cavalrymen and about 25 Catalan infantrymen to garrison a province almost 500 miles long - from Monterey to San Diego. Reyes joined the cavalry detachment at Monterey, which was then the only presidio in California, in addition to the missions of Carmel, San Antonio, San Gabriel and San Diego. He was stationed at Monterey and San Antonio during these years. In those days there were only about 75 soldiers, a dozen muleteers and eight or ten missionaries in California. There were no women or children among the colonists during the first five years (1769-1774), but from 1774 to 1781 several families came to California. Francisco Reyes eventually married a daughter of one of these colonial families in 1782, when he came to San Gabriel and married Maria Luisa del Carmen Dominguez, daughter of Yldefonzo [Ildefonso] Dominguez and Maria Ygnacia German. Her parents later settled in Baja California at Santa Maria, near San Luis Gonzaga Bay, which is on the Gulf of California. Maria Luisa del Carmen's brother, Jose Maria Dominguez, became a soldier in the newly-formed Santa Barbara Presidio and was the progenitor of the Dominguez family of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. He learned the Chumash language and frequently served as an interpreter for the Santa Barbara Company in expeditions in the field as well as the Presidio. Francisco Reyes's son, Jacinto Reyes, as mentioned above, had married Maria Antonia Machado in 1808. She was the daughter of Manuel Machado and Maria del Carmen Valenzuela, natives of Villa Sinaloa in the state of Sinaloa, the same town Yldefonzo Dominguez and his family were from. Almost one-fourth of the colonists of California were from this one little town in northwest Mexico. The Machado family eventually came to own the land grant of La Ballona in company with the Talamantes family by 1819. This tract of land now encompasses Culver City, Venice, Ocean Park, etc. Manuel Machado was a soldier in the Santa Barbara Company from 1782 until 1800, when he retired to be a farmer and stock raiser in Los Angeles. The Machado family had come to California the same time as the Dominguez family in the expedition of 1782. Juan Francisco Reyes y Diaz was a soldier for the 1769 Gaspar de Portola Expedition from the Royal Presidio of Loreto, Baja California, to the Bays of San Diego, Monterey and San Francisco, Alta California. He was a Soldado de cuera of the Presidio of Monterey. He accompanied Father Junipero Serra in the Portola Expedition and was the first grantee of land in the San Fernando Valley, and later the grantee of the Rancho Encino there. As part of the 1769 Expedition and a recipient of one of the largest, earliest land grants from the king of Spain, he was in the first group of non-native settlers in California. Two of his children he had baptized at Mission San Carlos [Borromeo] in 1785 and 1786; in 1787 he retired from the army, going to Los Angeles where two more children were born. He was alcalde of Los Angeles in 1793-1795 [Los Fundadores by Leon Rowland, Academy of California Church History Fresno, California, 1951]."</line><line /><line>From Nuesros Ranchos, http://www.nuestrosranchos.com/en/node/22689: "Francisco Reyes who accompanied the Portola party to discover Monterey, Alta California was born in 1747 in a small village called Zapotlan el Grande in the State of Jalisco, Mexico. (Today it is a city named Cuidad Guzman) His father was Juan Jose Dias and his mother was Gertrudis Reyes. It is unclear to us why he used the Reyes name when he journeyed to Alta California.
We have Reyes marriage investigation, signed by Padre Serra. After serving as a soldier protecting Serra in Carmel, Reyes was assigned to the SB Presidio to fulfill his period of enlistment. He retired to Pueblo de Los Angeles where he served twice as Alcade. Reyes was the recipient of a Spanish Land Grant called Encino. It encompassed today's Encino, but also contained the entire San Fernando Valley. As with all European land grants, when the Crown wanted his Rancho back to be given for a Mission at San Fernando, the land was.....reluctantly.....returned. Reyes was given a substitute land grant rancho called Lompoc. As part of La Senora's Rancho Descendants outreach, we have traced his descendants through five generations. We are now seeking information on his ancestors and on his activities in Mexico---most likely in the shipyards -- during the period in which the Alta California exploration ships were being readied for the journey. La Senora is devoted to research and education on the Cultural Heritage of these individuals so it's not just genealogical information we seek. After Independence, Reyes grandson Ysidro Reyes (a young vintner in the Pueblo) and a friend Francisco Marquez (operator of the large blacksmith shop in the Pueblo) moved to Rancho Boca de Santa Monica in 1839 when they received that Mexican Land Grant. We will post DNA info from Francisco Reyes great, great, great grandson (the Historian for La Senora Research Institute and Rancho Boca de Santa Monica) and will be delighted if someone can help us to understand what these tests mean. Ernest Marquez is the great grandson of both Ysidro Reyes and Francisco Marquez as the two land grant families intermarried."</line><line /><line>From Wikipedia: "Juan Francisco Reyes (1749-1809), soldado de cuero ("leather-jacketed soldier") on the 1769 Portola expedition, alcalde (municipal magistrate) of the Pueblo de Los Angeles for three terms, and recipient of the Spanish land grant for Los Encino and later Lompoc. In 1769 Francisco Reyes, left his home in Mexico to join the Spanish army and to accompany Fr. Junípero Serra on his journey to establish the California missions. Francisco Reyes served at Monterey and San Luis Obispo and was stationed at Mission San Antonio de Padua during its construction. In 1784, Francisco Reyes received the Spanish land grant, Rancho Los Encinos, which comprised what is now the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. He used the land for cattle ranching. In 1795, however, the Spanish mission founders decided that Rancho Los Encinos would be a favorable location for the Mission San Fernando. Reyes returned Rancho Los Encinos to the Mission. He requested a new land grant and received land in central California in 1802, between Mission San Luis Obispo and Mission La Purísima Concepción. Reyes did not reside there. Reyes maintained an adobe house in the Pueblo de Los Angeles. Reyes became alcalde of the Pueblo of Los Angeles in 1790, and 1793-1795. Francisco Reyes married María del Carmen Domínguez and their children include Antonio Reyes, Juana Reyes and José Jacinto Reyes.[1][2][3] Francisco Reyes’s brother-in-law, José María Domínguez, was the grantee of Rancho Las Virgenes. In 1845, José María Domínguez sold Rancho Las Virgenes to María Antonia Machado de Reyes. Sons of Juan Francisco Reyes: 1. José Jacinto Reyes (1788-1837), son of Juan Francisco Reyes, married María Antonia Francisca Valentina Machado (1792 - 1863)[4] in 1808 and they had fourteen children before his early death.[5][6] Both José's father, Juan Francisco Reyes, and María's father, José Manuel Machado, were soldados de cuero on the Portola expedition. 2. José Ysidro Reyes (1813 - 1861), son of José Jacinto Reyes and María Antonia Machado, married María Antonia Villa.[7] Ysidro Reyes lived in Los Angeles and owned one of the largest vineyards in the area. He also had a business transporting brea (tar) from the tar pits at Rancho La Brea to homes in Los Angeles. In 1839 Reyes, along with his friend Francisco Márquez, jointly received the Mexican land grant Rancho Boca de Santa Monica.[8] 3.José Paulino Reyes (1824 - ), son of José Jacinto Reyes and María Antonia Machado, built an adobe home on Rancho Las Virgenes in about 1850.[9][10] </line><line /><line>References: 1. Reyes Ancestry 2. Reyes Ancestry 3. Juan Francisco Reyes 4. María Antonia Francisca Valentina Machado 5. Portrait of María Antonia Machado de Reyes 6. Jacinto Reyes and María Antonia Machado marriage record 7. José Ysidro Reyes 8. Marquez family cemetery 9. Reyes Adobe Families 10. Reyes Adobe</line><line /><line>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Los_Encinos:</line><line /><line> "The name of the rancho derives from the original designation of the Valley by the Portola expedition of 1769: El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de los Encinos,[3] with encinobeing the Spanish name for Oaks, after the many native deciduus Valley Oak (Quercus lobata) and evergreen Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) trees across the valley's savannah, which are still found on the park's property. The natural springs on the land were used by the Tongva people. Portola camped here, and the springs were a necessary stop for travelers on El Camino Real, and the Ventura Road, which became Ventura Blvd. The adobe house completed in 1850, built by Vicente de la Osa at Rancho Los Encinos.Francisco Reyes, Alcalde, or mayor of Pueblo de Los Angeles from 1793-1795, established the original Rancho Encino in the northern San Fernando Valley. In or around 1797 Reyes ceded this land to the Roman Catholic Church to be the site of Mission San Fernando Rey de España, and relocated his Rancho Encino to one square league (4,460 acres) of land in the southern valley adjacent to El Camino Real and between the Los Angeles River and Santa Monica Mountains.[4] Reyes was accused of mistreating the Mission Indians who worked his rancho, and in 1845 Mexican Governor Pio Pico re-granted the property to three of the Tongva Native American workers, recorded as Ramon, Francisco, and Roque, who raised cattle and corn on their regained land. In 1849, Don Vicente de la Osa or de la Ossa, the original owner of the nearby Rancho Providencia, acquired the Tongva Indian's interests in the property.[5] His wife was Rita de Guillén de la Ossa, daughter of Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné of Rancho San Pascual. He built a 9-room adobe farmhouse in 1849-1850 that still stands near the spring. He took formal title to the Rancho under U.S. California law in 1851.[6]"</line><line /><line></line><line /><line>[Verified in Bancroft's Works, Volume 18, page 612]</line><line /><line>Per Huntington.org Marriage Records, http://missions.huntington.org/MarriageData.aspx?ID=1554: Juan Francisco Reyes married Maria Luisa del Carmen Dominguez y German 07 January 1782 Mission San Gabriel #00143. Juan's origin Zapotlan el Grande, military status soldado de cuera. Maria's origin Villa de Sinaloa. Juan's father stated as Joseph Diaz and mother is stated as Maria Gertrudis Reyes. Maria's father is stated as Ildefonso Dominguez and mother is stated as Maria Ignacia German, deceased. Witnesses are Joaquin Beltran, Joseph Maria Berdugo, Juan Andres Montiel and Joseph Estevan Romero. Officiant and Recorder is Antonio Cruzado.</line><line /><line>Per the 1790 California census, Los Angeles:</line><line /><line>Francisco Reyes, farm worker, mulato, from Zapotlan el Grande [Jalisco], 43; wife Maria del Carmen Dominguez, mestiza, [from Villa Sinaloa], 23; three children, mulatos; Antonio Faustino,4; Juana Inocencia, 3; Jose Jacinto, 2.</line><line /><line>Per Huntington.org Death Records, http://missions.huntington.org/DeathData.aspx?ID=6895:</line><line /><line>Francisco Reyes was buried 08 November 1809 Mission San Gabriel #02958. Spouse is stated as Maria de Carmen Dominguez. Francisco residence Vecino del Pueblo de los Angeles. Officiant and Recorder is Jose Maria de Zalvidea.
Note: Per William Mason, Associate Curator of California History, Los Angeles Natural History Museum, 22 March 1971: "Ysidro Reyes was the son of Jacinto Reyes and Maria Antonia Machado, who were ma
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