António José Rocha: O primeiro residente estrangeiro de Los Angeles

• David E. Berlão ^[1] ; Eduardo Mayone Dias ^[2]
  1. [1] Engenheiro
  2. [2] Universidade da Califórnia, E.U.A
• Localización: Ler história, ISSN-e 2183-7791, ISSN 0870-6182, Nº. 16, 1989, págs. 83-104
• Idioma: portugués
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  • português

    Fondé Ie 4 Septambre de 1781 Ie pueblo de Los Angeles attendra à peu pres 40 ans son premier habitant étranger. Il sagissait sürernent dun portugais, António José Rocha. Né em 1790 au nord du Portugal, Rocha déserta la goélette Columbia en 1814 à Monterey ou les autorités espagnoles lui accorderenr asile. Sans doute sous la protection des missionaires franciscains, ii sétablit à Los Angeles ou on lui octroya Ie Rancho La Brea et ou ii devint pour la suite prospere éleveur de bétail et comrnerçant. Il bâtit line maison au pueblo qui devint plus tard Ie premier hôtel de ville de celui-ci. Rocha mourut en 1837, laissant de nombreux descendants.

  • English

    Founded on September 4. 1781, the puebllo of Los Angeles would have to wait some forty years for its first foreign resident. In all probabillity he was António José Rocha, a Portuguese. Bam in 1790 in Northern Portugal, Rocha jumped ship from the English schooner Columbia in Monterey in 1814 and was granted asylum by the Spanish authoerities. No doubt under the protection of the Franciscan missionaries he settled in Los Angeles, where he was granted the Rancho La Brea and became an affluent cattleman and marchant. He built a house in the pueblo which later became its first city hall. Rocha died in 1837 leaving numerous offspring.