Appointment of David Leslie as administrator of Ewing Young estate [manuscript], 1841 April 15.

Young, Ewing, d. 1841.

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Oregon. Provisional Government.

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David Leslie was born in New Hampshire in 1787. He came to Oregon in 1837 to join Jason Lee's mission group and became the chief assistant in managing the mission. After working for Lee, Leslie went to the Sandwich Islands in 1842. He returned to Oregon and opened the first frame church in Oregon City. He was chaplain of the first territorial legislature in 1849. From the description of Appointment of David Leslie as administrator of Ewing Young estate [manus...

Leslie, David, 1787-1869.

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Reverend David Leslie was born in Washington, New Hampshire in 1797. He left New York in 1837 and traveled to Oregon via Cape Horn, arriving in September 1837. In Oregon he served in Jason Lee's Willamette Methodist Episcopal mission, and in 1839 he was appointed as one of two magistrates of the country south of the Columbia River. He went to the Hawaiian Islands in 1842 and returned to Oregon to open a church in Oregon City in 1843. He had six children with his first wife, Mary A. Kinney, who d...