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PÉREZHERNÁNDEZ, JUAN JOSEF, naval officer and explorer; b. c. 1725 in Majorca, Spain; d. 2 Nov. 1775 at sea off the Californian coast.
Little is known of the career of Juan Josef Pérez Hernández before 1767, when he entered the department of San Blas (state of Nayarit, Mexico), the administrative headquarters of New Spain’s west coast posts north of San Blas.
A graduate pilot, he had previously served on the Manila galleon route and was of sufficient prominence to be included in the junta convoked at San Blas in 1768 by Visitador José de Gálvez.
Juan José Pérez Hernández (born Joan Perés ca.The junta, in response to reports of Russian expansion east from the Aleutians (Alas.), planned the colonization of Alta (present day) California. In February 1769 Pérez, in command of the packet-boat Príncipe, carried one of the first shiploads of colonists to San Diego and Monterey, and in subsequent years he captained vessels which supplied the new settlements.
Although only a frigate ensign, Pérez was chose