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| Surname: Eixarch |
Given Name: Tomás |
Sex: M |
| Place of Birth: Leria, Spain |
Date of Birth: 01/01/1744 |
Order: Franciscan |
| Place of Death: Unknown |
Date of Death: |
Cause of Death: Unknown |
| Race or Tribe: Catalán |
Residence: Tumacácori |
Title: Misionero (OFM) |
| Place of Service: Tumacácori; |
Burial Place: Unknown |
Translation: (French and/or Catalonian) |
| Notes: We do not have his exact birth date. It was sometime about 1744. He had black hair and eyes and a sallow complexion. He entered the order of Friars Minor in Valencia in 1759 at the age of fifteen. He sailed in 1769 (with the mission of 1769) for the college of Queretaro. In 1772 he was in Texas at San Juan Capistrano in the San Antonio cluster when the Querétarans gave up the Texas missions. He went back to the college from there and set out for Sonora in 1774. He was at Tumacácori in early 1775. He went as far as the Yuma crossing on the Colorado River with the Anza Expedition. There he labored with the Yuma Indians until Anza's return. By the summer of 1776 he was at Oquitoa where he served the remainder of the required ten years. He retired to the college of Querétaro. On January 13, 1783, in Guadalajara, the Provincial and Difinetory of the Franciscan Province of Jalisco approved Eixarch to join their Province. During the mid-1780's he lived at the convento of Nuestra Senora de la Asunción in Acaponeta between Tepic and Mazatlan. He was named guardian of the friary at Amacueca in 1790. |
