1781 Rivera Expedition and Los Angeles Poblador
1782 Santa Barbara Pioneer

Luís Manuel Quintero was born at Guadalajara, New Spain (México), about 1735. He was a tailor by profession and of African descent. He married María Petra Rubio at Alamos, Sonora, about 1760. María was also of African descent. When his three eldest daughters married soldados de cuera ("leather jackets") bound for Alta California with Capitán Fernando Rivera y Moncada's expedition, Luís enrolled as a Los Angeles Poblador at Alamos on February 3, 1781, and departed with the expedition in April. That is how Luís and his family came to be present at the founding of el Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles during the Summer of 1781. Not long after he received his settler's plot, Luís requested permission to be released from his contract in order to continue on with the expedition to establish Santa Bárbara. His request was granted and he left Los Angeles in March 1782 and joined the march to Santa Bárbara, where he resumed his trade as a tailor. Luís was buried in the Santa Bárbara Mission Cemetery January 17, 1810 (BP Death 00133).
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Children:
(all born Alamos, Sonora, with baptism at Purísima Concepción church)

Married soldados at Purísima Concepción church, Alamos, Sonora:
- María Josefa Juana Concepción (1762-aft 1790 BP; married Jan. 22, 1781 to soldado José Rosalino Fernández, born ca. 1751, El Fuerte, Sinaloa)
- María Catarina Josefa (1763-1798 BP; married Oct. 21, 1780)
- María Fabiana Sebastiana (1764-1822 SG; married Jan . 21, 1781)
- María Anastacia (bap. May 6, 1766-bef. Feb. 1781)

Los Angeles Pobladores:
- (adopted) María Gertrudis (1765-abt 1820; orphaned daughter of Nicolás Castelo and María Rita Gertrudis Valenzuela, both of Alamos; married Nov. 12, 1782 SBV)
- María de la Concepción (1765-1838 SCL; married [1] Dec. 26, 1782 SBV)
- María Tomasa (Jan. 10, 1772-aft 1811 BP; married [1] 1785 SBV)
- María Rafaela (1775-1783 BP)
- José Clemente (1778-1803 BP; married Nov. 30, 1799 BP)