The Mission House he built there in 1825 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is operated as part of the Mackinac Island State Park.

This ship made trips to Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Grand Haven.

Stuart worked with the American Fur Company's Northern Department based on Mackinac Island Michigan.

Stuart saw the enterprising young Ferry as a perfect prospect for someone to run his affairs in the budding lumber industry in Michigan.

Ferry proposed to Stuart that the Grand River Valley held great possibility.

By June 1834, Stuart placed funds in the hands of Ferry to settle on the Grand River to set up a land and lumber enterprise sharing the profits.

He preached his first sermon on November 2, 1834, at the log cabin house and fur trading post of Rix Robinson.

On March 11, 1835, Ferry moved the religious services to his partly completed log cabin on the southwest corner of Washington and Water.

Near his house, for a cost of $650, Ferry owned and built the first framed building in Grand Haven in 1836 that served as a school and a church.

The valued estate transferred to their children, with their youngest son, Edward Payson Ferry, the executor.

On September 15, 1823, the newly married couple made their way to the Mackinac Native American mission.