The family moved to Talca, Juan Ignacio was only 5 years old. At the same time, the Jesuits settled in the block called "las Arboledas", in the newly created Villa de Talca, where they built their residence house. In the north corner they built in their early years a humble house with a “thatch and straw roof”, the place was used to install a "School of first Letters", an obligation imposed on them by the decree of installation of June 10, 1748.