Early in his life, he relocated to Vigo, in Galicia, where he lived since at least 1750, and where he soon became one of its most important businessmen by building a new salting installation for the processing and distribution of fish to his native land.
The good result of his business attracted some other Catalan families to the area, such as the Buch, the Curbera, the Escofet or the Fábregas.
In 1779 he obtained permission to attack the British naval commerce and that of its allies such as portugueses, during the American Revolutionary War.
He personally donated the statue of the Cristo de la Victoria,[1] which is still the most important religious icon of the city.
Two of them became very famous during their lifetime: Francisco Casimiro was the last Royal Governor of Chile and Buenaventura Miguel represented his father's company in Buenos Aires, and his family became one of the most important and wealthy of the Argentine republic.