Frustrated at his inability to convert the local Clatsop and Nehalem people, Frost took his family and left the area in August 1843.
[1] Sailing down the Columbia on a boat loaned from McLoughlin, the Methodists eventually reached the Clatsop Plains.
"[1] Events related to the small station were later recalled by Silas B. Smith, who moved to the Clatsop Plains as a child.
After being hospitably received by neighboring Clatsops, Silas' father, Solomon Smith, helped efforts in establishing mission buildings.
"[6] Consequentially he and his family left for the United States in November 1841 due to the "unpromising prospects among the natives..."[7] By February 1842, Frost concluded that "there never will be anything like a permanent Christian church raised up among [the Clatsops]" and decided the budget of the mission "ought to be expended to better purpose elsewhere.