Oregon
In September 1834 the Wyeth party reached Fort Vancouver and they began constructing Fort William down river on Wapato Island. Here Hubbard served as the fur post’s gunsmith. Then the next year Hubbard was accused of murdering the fort’s tailor, Thornburgh. In the subsequent trial overseen by Wyeth’s friend and naturalist John Kirk Townsend, Hubbard was found not guilty as the death was ruled justifiable homicide. The fight that lead to the death had been over a native girl named Mary St Martin, who he would then marry on April 3, 1837, with the Reverend Jason Lee presiding over the nuptials.
Next in 1841 he participated in cattle venture where he and others built a ship, and then sailed it to California where they sold it and purchased cattle to drive back to Oregon. Then in 1843 Hubbard participated in the Champoeg Meetings where he served on several committees and voted for the creation of the Provisional Government of Oregon. When war with the Native Americans came in 1847 after the Whitman massacre, Hubbard built and donated a rifle and pistol to the government. Later he moved to Yamhill County where he built a sawmill before dying on April 24, 1877.
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