A History of Oregon, 1792-1849: Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic InformationGray, W. H. (William Henry)
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A History of Oregon, 1792-1849: Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information
Gray, W. H. (William Henry)
Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon; Oregon Territory -- History
In the year 1834, Rev. Jason Lee, Rev. Daniel Lee, Cyrus Shepard, and P.
L. Edwards, connected with the Methodist Mission; Captain N. Wyeth,
American fur trader, and of his party in 1832, S. H. Smith, Burdet,
Greeley, Sergeant, Bull, St. Clair, and Whittier (who was helped to or
given a passage to the Sandwich Islands by the Hudson's Bay Company);
Brock, a gunsmith; Tibbets, a stone-cutter; Moore, killed by the
Blackfeet Indians; Turnbull, who killed himself by overeating at
Vancouver. There was also in the country a man by the name of Felix
Hathaway, saved from the wreck of the _William and Ann_. Of this number,
Smith, Sergeant, Tibbets, and Hathaway remained. Of the party in 1834,
James A. O'Neil, T. J. Hubbard, and Courtney M. Walker remained in the
country, making six of Wyeth's men and one sailor. C. M. Walker came
with Lee's company. With Ewing Young, from California, came, in this
year, John McCarty, Carmichael, John Hauxhurst, Joseph Gale, John
Howard, Kilborn, Brandywine, and George Winslow, a colored man. By the
brig _Maryland_, Captain J. H. Couch, G. W. Le Breton, John McCaddan,
and William Johnson. An English sailor, by the name of Richard or Dick
McCary, found his way into the settlement from the Rocky Mountains.
In the year 1835 it does not appear that any settlers arrived in the
country. Rev. Samuel Parker visited and explored it under the direction
of the American Board of Foreign Missions.
In 1836, Rev. H. Spalding, Dr. M. Whitman, W. H. Gray, Mrs. Eliza
Spalding, and Mrs. Narcissa Whitman, missionaries of the American Board,
and Rev. Mr. Beaver, Episcopal chaplain at Vancouver, and Mrs. Beaver.
There appear to have been no settlers this year; at least, none known to
us.
In 1837, Mrs. A. M. Lee, Mrs. S. Shepard, Dr. E. White, Mrs. M. White,
A. Beers, Mrs. R. Beers, Miss E. Johnson, W. H. Wilson, Mr. J. Whitcomb,
members of the Methodist Episcopal Mission. Second re-enforcement this
year: Rev. H. K. W. Perkins, Rev. David Leslie, Mrs. Leslie, Misses
Satira, Mary, and Sarah Leslie, Miss Margaret Smith, Dr. J. Bailey, an
Englishman, George Gay, and John Turner.
In 1838, Rev. Elkanah Walker, Mrs. Mary Walker, Rev. Cushing Eells, Mrs.
Elvira Eells, Rev. A. B. Smith, Mrs. E. Smith, and Mrs. Mary A. Gray,
missionaries of the American Board. As laborers under special contract
not to trade in furs or interfere with Hudson's Bay Company's trade,
James Conner, native wife, and one child, and Richard Williams, both
from Rocky Mountains. Jesuit priests: Rev. F. N. Blanchet, Rev. Demerse,
located at Vancouver and French Prairie.
In 1839, Rev. J. S. Griffin, Mrs. Griffin, Asael Munger, Mrs. Mary
Munger, Independent Protestant Mission; Robert Shortess, J. Farnam,
Sydney Smith, Mr. Lawson, Rev. Ben. Wright (Independent Methodist), Wm.
Geiger, Mr. Keizer, John Edmund Pickernel, a sailor.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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