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José Antonio Baldemero Navarro was born in San Antonio de Bexar, Province of Texas, on 27 February 1795. He was of Corsican descent, the son of Angel Navarro (born about 1749) who left his native Ajaccio, Corsica about 1772.

According to his own biographical sketch, Angel Navarro ran away from his Corsican home at age 13 or 14. He spent time as a servant in Genoa, Barcelona and Cadiz and finally came to Spanish colonial Mexico as a servant where he learned the merchant trade in Nuevo Leon and Real de Bayecillos.

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He was in San Antonio by 1779 where records indicate he was a 27 year old unmarried merchant possessing one horse. He married María Joséfa Ruiz y Peña (born 1766), daughter of Juan Manuel Ruiz of Queretaro and Manuela de la Peña of Saltillo.

Memoirs of a contemporary named Rodriguez remarked: Angel Navarro "a countryman of Napoleon Bonaparte, the latter going toward the rising sun to become the greatest man mentioned in secular history