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Surname: Font Given Name: Pedro Sex: M
Place of Birth: Gerona, Spain Date of Birth: Order: Franciscan
Place of Death: Pitiquito Date of Death: 09/10/1781 Cause of Death:
Race or Tribe: Catalán Residence: San José de Pimas; Pitiquito Title: Misionero (OFM); Fundador de San Francisco
Place of Service: Pimería Alta Burial Place: Pitiquito Translation: (Catalan)
Notes: Chunky Padre Font was a Catalán from Gerona, Spain, born in 1737. Being Catalán he was actually "Pere" Font, and had a brother, Pau Font , who was also a Franciscan. He crossed the Atlantic on the Júpiter. He was of medium height but blocky. His face was round and his black hair receding. He was musical and artistic. At the College of Querétaro he sang in the choir and drew great iluminated choir books. He came to the Sonora mission field in 1773 and was first assigned to San José de Pimas. He left Fray Joachín Belarde in charge of his mission at San José de Pimas while he went as chaplain on the 1775-76 expedition with Juan Bautista de Anza. When he returned in June of 1776 he went to Ures and completed his short diary. Since San José de los Pimas had been ceded to the Jaliscans, he was assigned briefly to Ímuris where he suffered through the Indian uprising of November 1776. He went to Átil and Magdalena, and then Tubutama where in finsihed his long diary of the Expedition in May of 1777. He was at Caborca after 1780 and died at its visita of Pitiquito sometime after September 8, 1781

 
Event Relationship [31 Records]

Event ID: 2244 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 10/26/1775    
 
Event ID: 2245 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 10/26/1775    
 
Event ID: 2246 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 10/26/1775    
 
Event ID: 2448 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 11/16/1776 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2449 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 11/17/1776 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2450 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 03/06/1774 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2451 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 03/16/1774 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2452 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 07/21/1774 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2453 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 11/05/1776 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2454 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 11/05/1776 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2455 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 09/05/1767 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2456 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 09/05/1767 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2457 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 09/16/1767 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2458 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 09/16/1767 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2459 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 02/10/1768 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2460 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 04/25/1768 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2461 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 04/25/1768 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2462 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 04/25/1768 View Document A B
 
Event ID: 2463 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 04/25/1768 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 2464 Relationship: Copyist Event Date: 04/25/1768 View Document A  
 
Event ID: 4357 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 09/08/1781    
 
Event ID: 7801 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 07/21/1781    
 
Event ID: 8745 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 12/28/1780    
 
Event ID: 8746 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 01/16/1781    
 
Event ID: 9259 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 03/23/1781    
 
Event ID: 9264 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 03/26/1780    
 
Event ID: 9266 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 05/09/1781    
 
Event ID: 9416 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 02/05/1779    
 
Event ID: 9417 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 02/08/1779    
 
Event ID: 9418 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 02/10/1779    
 
Event ID: 9419 Relationship: Priest Event Date: 02/13/1779    
 
 
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