Fernando de Rivera y Moncada

Comandante of California 1774–1777; killed at the Colorado in the 1781 Yuma revolt.

Matched on the full surname only; bare “Rivera” is ambiguous.

Recorded span
1769 to 1784
Records
62 naming this person as author or recipient
Name forms matched
rivera y moncada

‘fl.’ = the span of dated catalog records matching the name forms as author/recipient. Outlier years usually mean a retrospective mention, a later copy, a homonym, or a record whose own date carries a low confidence flag — check the records, not this line. Counts are of DISTINCTIVE name forms; bare family surnames (Argüello, Carrillo, Castro, Estrada…) are deliberately left unattributed rather than guessed.