Juan José Pérez Hernández
Juan José Pérez Hernández (born Joan Perés
1774 expedition
Confident of their territorial claims, the Spanish Empire did not explore or settle the northwest coast of North America in the 250 years after being claimed for the crown by Vasco Núñez de Balboa. By the late 18th century; however, learning of Russian and British arrivals along the Pacific Northwest and Alaskan coasts, Spain finally grew sufficiently concerned about their claims to the region and set out to discover the extent of any colonial Russian and British encroachment.
In early 1774, the
In July 1774, he reached
Pérez was accompanied by Fray Juan Crespí and his assistant Fray Tomas de la Pena Y Saravia.[4] Pérez gave the name of Cerro Nevado de Santa Rosalía ("Snowy Peak of Saint Rosalia") to present day Mount Olympus in the U.S. state of Washington.[4]
Pérez continued south to the
1775 expedition
In 1775, a second expedition under Bruno de Heceta and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was organized. Pérez participated as piloto of Heceta's ship, the Santiago.
Pérez died on the return journey, on November 3, 1775, between Monterey, California and San Blas.
Legacy
Juan Perez Sound, off the east coast of Moresby Island of Haida Gwaii, is named for him.
See also
Notes
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- ^ a b c Sanchez 2004
Further reading
- Chapman, Charles Edward (1916). The Founding of Spanish California: The Northwestward Expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783. Macmillan. pp. 217–255. ISBN 9781404763388.
- Cook, Warren L. (1973). Flood Tide of Empire, Spain and the Pacific Northwest, 1543-1819. Yale University Press.
- Cook, Warren L. (1979). "Pérez Hernández, Juan Josef". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- Sanchez, Antonio (2004). "Spanish Exploration: Juan Perez Expedition of 1774". HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History.
- Servin, Manuel P.; Ursúa, Antonio María Bucareli y (1961). "The Instructions of Viceroy Bucareli to Ensign Juan Perez". California Historical Society Quarterly. 40 (3): 237–248. JSTOR 25155405.