Sarah's son, Lorrin Andrews Thurston, played a pivotal role in later Hawaiian history.

The physician Gerrit P. Judd was also in this third company from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

On his voyage he had already transcribed a list of Hawaiian words which had been sent back to the New England mission office in 1827.

[4] In June 1831 the mission hoped to establish a seminary on Maui, since it was somewhat centrally located among the Hawaiian Islands.

[6] By May 1832 he helped translate the New Testament of the Bible into Hawaiian, which would prove to be part of a long and collaborative effort.

[7] In December 1833, an old Ramage press was shipped from Honolulu and installed in a small thatched roof building on the school campus by January 1834.

The press had been sent along with printer Elisha Loomis (a distant cousin via his mother) on the first company of missionaries in 1820, and used to print a few hymnals and spelling books.

[8] Although Andrews had only worked briefly as an assistant in a printer's office, he taught classes in printing at Lahainaluna.

Students learned how to set type, operate the old press, create copper engravings and bind books.

[9] By February 1836, he published a list of about 5,700 words in the Hawaiian language that had been edited through the years (based on Elisha Loomis' work) using the press.

In 1837 work began on a more substantial building called Hale Paʻi (printing house).

David Malo had served as court historian and genealogist during the formation of the kingdom, so is generally credited as the major source.

[13] He left the mission in April 1842 because the board in New England continued to accept funds from slave owning states.

He remained involved with publishing and in 1843 directed the printing some of the first paper currency issued in the Kingdom.

Since the nation had no official currency of its own, it was based on the U.S. Dollar and called hoʻokahi dala.

On September 19, 1845, the Governor of Oahu Mataio Kekūanaōʻa appointed Andrews to be judge of foreign cases despite the lack of any formal training.

In June 1846 local judges were added for the other islands, and he was given appellate jurisdiction as well as handling major original cases.

[15] Starting in 1846 he served as secretary of the King's Privy Council, keeping records in both English and Hawaiian.

[16] William Little Lee drafted a judiciary bill to implement the provisions of the 1852 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii.