SAN FRANCISCO
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:15 pm
SAN FRANCISCO.
Spanish King Felipe V and Francisco de Alzaybar, a wealthy shipbuilder, signed a contract of settlement under which Montevideo would be founded and peopled under Alzaybar’s command.
As stated on such document, Alazaybar would lead fifty families, natives of the Canary Isles, as well as soldiers to Montevideo.
Alzaybar having become an associate of Lieutenant Cristobal de Urquiijo, and with the purpose of accomplishing such an important mission, had five vessels built in London, these were.
SAN FRANCISCO (sixty cannons 264 tons)
SAN BRUNO (50 cannons 279 tons)
SAN IGNACION (60 cannons 350 tons).
SAN MARTIN (30 cannons)
NUESTRA SENORA DE LA ENCINA (24 guns 121 tons.)
The first twenty families, natives of the Canary Isles traveled to Montevideo in the NUESTRA SENORA DE LA ENCINA, known as BRETANA.
24 December 1728, the remaining thirty families left Cadiz for Montevideo in an expedition under the command of Alzaybar.
A hundred soldiers traveled in the SAN BRUNO, and Alzaybar himself, altogether with eighty missionaries and some friends and relatives of him in the SAN FRANCISCO, they arrived at the destination by the end of 1729.
Uruguay 1996 3p20 sg2277, scott1617b.
Spanish King Felipe V and Francisco de Alzaybar, a wealthy shipbuilder, signed a contract of settlement under which Montevideo would be founded and peopled under Alzaybar’s command.
As stated on such document, Alazaybar would lead fifty families, natives of the Canary Isles, as well as soldiers to Montevideo.
Alzaybar having become an associate of Lieutenant Cristobal de Urquiijo, and with the purpose of accomplishing such an important mission, had five vessels built in London, these were.
SAN FRANCISCO (sixty cannons 264 tons)
SAN BRUNO (50 cannons 279 tons)
SAN IGNACION (60 cannons 350 tons).
SAN MARTIN (30 cannons)
NUESTRA SENORA DE LA ENCINA (24 guns 121 tons.)
The first twenty families, natives of the Canary Isles traveled to Montevideo in the NUESTRA SENORA DE LA ENCINA, known as BRETANA.
24 December 1728, the remaining thirty families left Cadiz for Montevideo in an expedition under the command of Alzaybar.
A hundred soldiers traveled in the SAN BRUNO, and Alzaybar himself, altogether with eighty missionaries and some friends and relatives of him in the SAN FRANCISCO, they arrived at the destination by the end of 1729.
Uruguay 1996 3p20 sg2277, scott1617b.