Note 118 — JOURNAL OF TRAVELS OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS (continued 2)
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Matthew (not N.) Gilmore came out in 1843, settling on the Tualatin Plains, where he was chosen delegate to the provisional legislature of 1844. Gilmore was a farmer, not prominent in public life.
Charles Gilmore appears to have been of the migration of 1844.
Peter G. Stewart came with the Applegate party of 1843, and was one of the executive committee of three, chosen in 1844. He was a man of calm, dispassionate temper, who had been a jeweler in the states. In 1853 he was port surveyor at Pacific City.—Ed.