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Its Early History. In the Fall of the year 1777, the Mexican com mander at the Presidio of San Francisco sent out a detachment of troops from that post for the purpose of establishing an agricultural settlement in the Santa Clara Valley to furnish subsistence and supplies to the garrison at the Presidio. This detachment ad vancing into the valley, located on the 29th of No vember of that year, a settlement on the banks of the Guadalupe creek, which was the commencement of our now flourishing city of San Jose (pronounced San Ho-say). Its history from the time of its first location, as above stated, and the date of the cession of Upper California to the United States, is involved in obscur ity, and is only to be obtained from tradition, frag ments of Spanish records existing mostly in the ar chives of Catholic Missions, partly among the records of the United States’ Land Office, and in disconnected 2.
