From here he went to the Danish West Indies and became Rector of St.Paul's Parish, Fredericksted, St.Croix, about forty miles square and embracing almost half of the island.

Owing to failing health he returned, after many arduous labours, to the United States, and became Rector of St.Luke's Church, Rossville, Staten Island.

He went finally to San Francisco, where he preached for the first time on July 8th, 1849, in the midst of the gold excitement, and on July 22nd of this same year, became the founder of Trinity Parish, where his honoured name is still held in grateful remembrance, not merely by some of the twenty-two original members, who still live, but by their children and grandchildren.

The first Trinity Church was located on the northeast corner of Post and Powell Streets.

It was a modest building, which, in 1867, gave place to an edifice, Gothic in design, costing $85,000.