While tracking down the names of the survivors of the Villasur Expedition (see my blog post: Was Francisco Montes Vigil a Survivor of the Villasur Expedition? ) I was surprised that I could not find any online sources that listed the names of all of the survivors and those who were killed. Most online accounts mention the most famous casualty of the expedition, the French interpreter, my 8x-great-grandfather Jean L’Archevêque (Juan de Archibeque in Spanish) but don’t provid

A number of secondary sources claim that my 8x-great-grandfather Francisco Montes Vigil was one of only fourteen survivors of the ill-fated Villasur Expedition of 1720.