At a pioneer gathering on May 2, 1843, the French-Canadians and Americans present were divided about forming a "civil community.

[2] Using a scow and the assistance of a steamboat, Gray sailed down the Columbia River for the Clatsop Plains.

While navigating from Astoria the scow was harangued by a storm and sunk at Chinook Point with all of Gray's livestock.

[4] The second child was Caroline Augustus Gray, born 1840, who married Jacob Kamm in 1859 or 1860.

"[Gray's] book, in my best judgment, is a bitter, prejudiced, sectarian, controversial work in the form of a history," said Peter H. Burnett in his Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer.Historian Edward Gaylord Bourne endorsed these reviews in his 1902 article The Legend of Marcus Whitman.