Juan Francisco Reyes (1749–1809), ''soldado de cuero'' ("leather-jacketed soldier") on the 1769

Portola expedition Portola may refer to: * ''Portola'' (album), a 1998 album by Rose Melberg * Portola, California * Portola, San Francisco, California People with the surname * Gaspar de Portolá Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira (January 1, 1716 – October 10, 1 ...

, '' alcalde'' (municipal

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) of the

Pueblo de Los Angeles In the Southwestern United States, Pueblo (capitalized) refers to the Native tribes of Puebloans having fixed-location communities with permanent buildings which also are called pueblos (lowercased). The Spanish explorers of northern New Spain ...

for three terms, and recipient of the Spanish land grant for

Rancho Los Encinos Rancho Los Encinos (also Rancho El Encino and Rancho Encino) was a Spanish grazing concession, and later Mexican land granted cattle and sheep rancho and travelers way-station on the El Camino Real in the San Fernando Valley, in present-day En ...

and later Lompoc.

Juan Francisco Reyes

In 1769 Francisco Reyes, left his home in Mexico to join the Spanish army and to accompany Fr.

Junípero Serra Junípero Serra y Ferrer (; ; ca, Juníper Serra i Ferrer; November 24, 1713August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Order. He is credited with establishing the Franciscan Missions in the Sierr ...

on his journey to establish the California missions. Francisco Reyes served at

Monterey Monterey (; es, Monterrey; Ohlone: ) is a city located in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast. Founded on June 3, 1770, it functioned as the capital of Alta California under bot ...

and

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and was stationed at

Mission San Antonio de Padua Mission San Antonio de Padua is a Spanish mission established by the Franciscan order in present-day Monterey County, California, near the present-day town of Jolon. Founded on July 14, 1771, it was the third mission founded in Alta Californi ...

during its construction. In 1784, Francisco Reyes received the Spanish land grant,

, which comprised what is now the San Fernando Valley in

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. 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 Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa ( es, Misión San Luis Obispo de Tolosa) is a Spanish mission founded September 1, 1772 by Father Junípero Serra in San Luis Obispo, California. Named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse, the ...

and

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. Reyes did not reside there. Reyes maintained an adobe house in the

. Reyes became alcalde of the Pueblo of Los Angeles in 1790, and 1793-1795. Francisco Reyes married María del Carmen Domínguez and some of their eleven children include Antonio Reyes, Juana Reyes and José Jacinto Reyes. 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.

Antonio Faustino Reyes

Antonio Faustino Reyes (1785-1844) eldest son of Juan Francisco Reyes, married Maria Clara Cota on July 31, 1816 at Mission San Gabriel. He served as a part of the L.A militia and at the Presidio in San Diego. They had 6 children.

Antonio Maria Reyes

Antonio Maria Reyes (1822-1928) son of Antonio Faustino Reyes, married Maria Trinidad Jesus Francisca Vejar on January 18, 1852, in San Gabriel, California. They had 7 children. Maria was the daughter of Nepomuceno Ricardo Vejar (1805 - 1882). Ricardo Vejar served as Juez de Campo (Country Judge) in Los Angeles in 1833. Vejar owned a one third share of

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and was also the owner of Rancho Los Nogales. Antonio died at the age of 105 in Orange, California.

José Jacinto Reyes

José Jacinto Reyes (1788-1837), son of Juan Francisco Reyes, married María Antonia Francisca Valentina Machado (1792 - 1863) in 1808 and they had fourteen children before his early death. Both José's father, Juan Francisco Reyes, and María's father, José Manuel Machado, were ''soldados de cuero'' on the Portola expedition.

Ysidro Reyes

José Ysidro Reyes (1813 - 1861), son of José Jacinto Reyes and María Antonia Machado, married María Antonia Villa. 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 Rancho La Brea was a Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, given in 1828 to Antonio Jose Rocha and Nemisio Dominguez by José Antonio Carrillo, the alcalde of Los Angeles. Rancho La Brea consisted of one square le ...

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.

José Paulino Reyes

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José Paulino Reyes (1824 - ), son of José Jacinto Reyes and María Antonia Machado, built an adobe home on Rancho Las Virgenes in about 1850. Reyes Adobe
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