The Clatsop Mission was an outpost of the Methodist Mission near modern Astoria, Oregon, United States. Joseph H. Frost was sent to the Clatsop Plains at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1841. Until a residency was complete, Frost and his family resided at Fort George. After Frost returned to the Willamette station to request additional members, Kone was assigned to accompany him as the planned Umpqua mission had been forfeited. After sailing down the Columbia on a boat, loaned from McLoughlin, to the planned mission the Methodists began to reside according to Frost in an area "surrounded by Indians, who were ignorant, superstitious and barbarous." A band of Clatsops, the local tribe, assisted the Methodists in the construction of their house and provided food as well. A small house was