By order of the Viceroy of New Spain and under an agreement made on August 13, 1775, between Captain and Comandante Don Fernando de Rivera y Moncada and Father President Junipero Serra, the Mission of San Juan Capistrano was to be established in the valley of the same name or nearby, between San Diego and San Gabriel. Serra appointed Father Preacher Fray Fermín Francisco Lasuen and Father Preacher Fray Gregorio Amurrio as its ministers and missionaries. The comandante accepted two of four soldiers offered by the missions and added four more from the presidios, creating an escort of six soldiers and a muleteer named Feliciano. The party assigned to assist in the founding included two married Indian families and four unmarried Indian boys who came from Baja California with the missionaries. Supplies granted included flour, beans, rice, and an order on the San Diego granary for twenty-five fanegas of corn, along with beads for gifts to native people. Livestock assigned to the new mission included nine milch cows, a breeding bull, a yoke of oxen, pack mules, saddle mules, horses, mares, pigs, and chickens. Saddles, bridles, hoes, axes, machetes, knives, and other iron tools were provided or requested from nearby missions. Church furnishings and liturgical items included a crucifix, portraits of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Soledad, and San Juan Capistrano, muslin for the altar, a missal, linens, wax, a chalice, vestments, oils, a surplice, a ritual, a baptismal shell, a bell, and blank record books. With these arrangements made, Father Fermín left Mission San Carlos de Monterey on August 21, 1775, to join his companion at Mission San Luis Obispo.