[1] On his return on 9 December 1832, 146 Black Marylanders emigrated to Liberia, in part due to his accounts.
During the travel, the first officer David C. Landis accused Prout of a number of improprieties.
Landis's charges included ignoring the medical needs of passengers, as well as a sexual indecency.
[1] On 5 July 1847, the delegates to Liberia's constitutional convention first convened and elected officers.
[3] Most of the papers relating to the convention have been lost, though a surviving account of the convention from Dr. James W. Lugenbeel, the American Colonization Society's white resident physician, criticized Prout's secretarial abilities, though it is unclear if Lugenbeel's negative portrayal of Prout's abilities are accurate.