had an extend farming establishment, and where the town of Gervais now stTnoT Montonre sold his improvements to Pierre Depuis, who remained nte'farm till 1850, when it was sold to Mr Brown Simon Plumondean is said by Dunn, in his Oregon. Territory, 236, with another Canadian Fancault, to have he^ the first Frenchman to settle in the Willamette Valley, by which he may have meant French Prairie. Plumondean had served as cock- Tw^to to General Cass in an expedition to the northwest *— y, and was a very skilful and reliable boatman and woodsman, and served severa 1 Ameri- cans in the Oregon territory, among others Lieutenant Wilkes, in 1841. U. -S. 2 2 iv. 338. Among the remnants of Hunt's party in Oregon Madame Dorion and her son; the woman was still living in the Willamette

Val S.Wyeth, Oregon, 51, names ten men who in 1832 continued their iourney with his brother to the Columbia: G. Sargent, W. Breck S. Burditt, rSefefi. Trumbull, J. Woodman Smith, John Ball, Whittier, St Clair, and Abbot As a matter of fact, there were eleven, the other probably being Soiomon H. Smith, who came to Oregon in that year. Robert Campbell of s" originally of the number, does not appear to have reached western Orion Ibbot, who remained to trap on Salmon River, was, with one of his Smions, killed by the Bannack Indians. W.« ^ , 5. Gray add two names for which I find no authority-Moore and Greely-the formei kXd by Indians, the latter not accounted for. He makes no mention of John B 1, reputed the first American farmer in the Willamette Valley ^argent died in 1836, of dissipation. According to Gray, But. Or. 191 Whittier was g^en a passage to the Sandwich Islands by the Hudson's Bay Company, and Trumbull killed himself by overeating at Fort Vancouver. .

OnTe 1st of January, 1833, John Ball was installed as teacher of the halfdu-eed children at Fort Vancouver. From spring till autumn he engaged to a "g with Calvin Tibbets in the Willamette Valley. As no American ^t eTarUd, and disliking the controlling power of the Hudson* Bay Company, he embarked on a whaling vessel for South America. Ultimate y heTettled at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mr Tibbets remained m Oregon, and is one of the founders of American settlement m the Willamette Va ley. He removed to Clatsop, near the mouth of the Columbia River. Mr Solomon H. Smith succeeded Mr Ball as pedagogue from the 1st of March, ".named long enough to fall in love with the Indian wife of the baker, ran away w th her Tudt children, and established a school at the house of Joseph Ger^s Roberts- Recollections, MS., 36 ; Portla M l BeraU, March £ Jf *< J^™ Svectator Nov. 1, 1849. After the missionaries arrived and began preaching, Sm^htet with I change of heart, according to Daniel Lee, ^e = returned the baker's wife. Lee and Frost's Ten Years mOr., 269. He proved a good citizen of Oregon, finally settling among his wife's relatives at Clatsop where he became a thriving farmer, and died at an advanced age In las ZLldly affairs his Clatsop wife, to whom he was formally marr.ed, was of Taterial benefit to him. 3UMA Puget Sound MS., 2. those who ^m- panied Wyeth to 1834, about twenty reached the lower Columbia ^d ifewof their names have been preserved. Wc know of James H. ONeih Thomas Jefferson Hubbard, Richard McCrary, Paul Richardson, Sansbury, Thornburg,