 In New Spain, he continued his studies in Mexico City and Puebla between 1756 and 1761.In 1762 he was sent to Baja California, initially to Santa Gertrudis, at that time the northernmost Jesuit establishment.After preparing under Santa Gertrudis' missionary, Georg Retz, Linck moved north in the same year to found San Francisco de Borja Adac among the northern Cochimí.