 Later Blumenthal took part in the consolidation of the Spanish settlement that would become the Talagante Province; he was the first engineer in the remote colony.Blumenthal’s son-in-law, "Pedro Lisperguer" (born Peter Lisperger in Worms, Germany), was appointed as mayor of Santiago in 1572.Johann von Bohon (known in Spanish as Juan Bohón) was also part of Valdivia's expedition and was ordered to establish the city of La Serena in 1544.