the harmony of the Methodist colonists arose to a orreat decree from the unavoidable trials of a new settlement in the hands of inexperienced persons.

It does not appear, from anything discovered m the writings of the missionaries,, that Jason Lee told his associates of his correspondence with agents of the government. Had the disaffected members of the Mission known that they had been used to carry out a colonization project, some expression of their resent- ment on finding themselves the victims of so worldly an artifice would somewhere appear. But the colo- nization scheme is never alluded to as a cause ot their disappointment. 20

White havino- resigned, Babcock was called from the Dalles to the Willamette, where the usual summer sickness was disabling the Mission. Chills and fever, ending in a low typhoid, prostrated the white popula- tion and carried off the natives. 21

so Frost says that he does not in the least regret that he embarked in the enterprise although in the three years he remained m Oregon he ruined hi, health or lif Tfor & he believes he accomplished some good to the Indians by preventing murders, which were formerly frequent amongst them. Lee and SwFS? 331-2. Bines, who wrote later, when more was known about the facts excuses tit fraud on the missionary society by explaining that the Indian! Lee expected to teach nearly all died during his visit east. Oregon

^Parrish says 500 Indians died in the Willamette Valley in 1840. Un- doubtedly aii ^estimate, as this number of Indians could not be W within the range of observation of the missionaries m that valley^ , Anec \tq ^ Of the personal affairs of the missionaries from 1840 to 1843, dotes, Mb., So. Ui tne peibuiicti ^1" Pnrrkh lost his

eldest son >y the I™™™8™£^ 0n the 16th of February of the same year Cid G^f fte SS^ement married Miss Orpha Lankton of the

£fl&cK2?3& SSSto. JoL McKmney of the Methodist church.

Ihe had three sou! by her first husband She died at .8* avdle , L.nu County Spntpmber 26 1873. Portland P. C. Advocate, Nov. 13, 16 16. Un tne zou March Mrs Daniel Lee presented her husband with a son, who was nam d Wdbur Fisk. It was about this time that Mr Whitcomb married Mrs _Shcp- ard On the 6th of May, a young man named Joseph ™^£™£££ have occasion to mention in another place, and who arrive^ a ,1 ^«~J* on the day the rcenforcement landed, «f™* *™ : ^^J^gdMaE mission family. Miss Phelps was born July 29, 1814, at fP 1 ™^ 1 ^' ™ sacliusctt and educated at Wilbraham Academy in that state Mrs Ho nu-