Jean Bautista De Anza

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Jean Bautista De Anza led a party to the San Francisquito Creek, which had been selected as the site of a new mission. However, when De Anza's party reached the creek in March 1776 they found it dry. As a result, De Anza, who was accompanied by a Spanish priest named Father Font, decided not to locate a mission in the area. Instead, the mission was established in Santa Clara.