 The city served as a farming community to support the Presidio of San Francisco and the Presidio of Monterey.In 1781, later in de Neve's tenure, he founded the "Pueblo de Los Ángeles".Governor de Neve had applied to Viceroy Bucareli for permission to establish a settlement ("pueblo") near the Los Angeles River ("Río de Porciúncula"), where Father Juan Crespí had met local Tongva Indians.