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Pedro Fages came to Mexico in 1767 as lieutenant, 16t battalion, 2nd regiment, Catalonia Volunteers.
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Pedro Fages came to Mexico in 1767 as lieutenant, 16t battalion, 2nd regiment, Catalonia Volunteers.
While fighting Sonora Indians he was ordered to lead twenty-five of his men under Gaspar de Portola on the "Holy Expedition” the occupation of Alta California, and sailed from La Paz for San Diego on the San Carlos, arriving after a terrible voyage of no days. He accompanied Portola when the latter founded the mission and presidio at Monterey on June 3, 1770, and remained in command after Portola returned to Mexico. In November 1770 he explored the east shore of San Francisco Bay northward to San Leandro, and in March 1772, again traversed the same region as far as Antioch. His party had been the first to sight the Golden Gate, and his discoveries determined the ultimate location of San Francisco. Strong- willed and practical, the most notable of the early governors, he clashed with Father Serra over the founding of the missions and over the control of the soldiers, whose low morals corrupted the Indian women. There were also squabbles over his alleged opening of the missionaries’ mail. Serra went to Mexico in 1773 and procured Fages's recall, on May 4, 1774. For a time the deposed officer served with his regiment at Pachuca, Mexico. In 1781 and 1782 he made two land journeys to the Colorado River to punish Indians who had destroyed two defenseless missions newly established near the present Yuma as way stations between Sonora and Alta California. Fages liked California and served it loyally. He saved it from famine in 1772 by hunting bears for meat near the present San Luis Obispo. The missionaries spoke kindly of him. He encouraged the fur-trade, urged erection of missions and presidios, and favored the importation of artisans to teach the Indians. He began grants of land, chose several mission sites, and bestowed numerous surviving place names. He got on with Father Lasuen even after disagreement over solitary mission service for the friars, and he was complimented as a worthy soldier by Laperouse and George Vancouver. He became a colonel in 1789.
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But his wife, Eulalia Callis, whom he brought to Monterey in 1782, hated California and had a mind to leave it. Finally, in 1790, after he had been nagged for years, Fages asked to be relieved. His wife, taking the son Pedro and the daughter, sailed away that fall, and he followed a year later. His life at Monterey had been brightened by his pride in his orchard of six hundred fruit trees, shrubs, and vines.
