Pedro+de+Peralta

Peralta arrived in ** Mexico City **during the winter of 1608–09 following his university studies in Spain. In March 1609 the viceroy of Mexico appointed him to the post of governor of New Mexico; and, from April to October of that year, Peralta organized an expedition to that province. He evidently reached the colony’s San Gabriel settlement, which had served as the colonial capital, by the following spring. He then moved the capital to another settlement, which became known as Santa Fe.