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�Jose Maria Duarte
Jose Maria Duarte was Spanish and Yaqui ( at the time of the Spanish conquest they were a war-like tribe with a high degree of culture). The Yaqui tribe lived in the southern part of the California Peninsula.
Jose Maria Duarte came north as a Spanish soldier with the Portola Expedition of 1769. He left his wife and three small children in Sonora, Mexico After a few years his wife, Maria Dela Cruz, missed him so much that she joined the second Anza Expedition She Walked with her three children to the Monterey Area, where Jose had been stationed. (Anza mentions her in his diary as the wife of a soldier, traveling with her three Small children to join her husband.) Meanwhile, Jose had got very ill and had been taken back to the San Diego area. Maria arrived in Monterey to find him gone. She Then took the Children and Walked to San Diego She re-joined her husband and they lived a long life together, having many more children. Maria walked, almost 2,000 miles to be with her husband.
Portola Expedition 1769-1770
Carrisosa's had 2 ancestors on this expedition both were listed as Spanish soldiers.
1) Jose Maria Duarte
2) Jose Antonio Ontiveros