 In February 1823 he arrived with William White and James Stack in Whangaroa Harbour and established Wesleydale, the Wesleyan mission at Kaeo, which is inland from the Whangaroa Harbour.John Hobbs and Nathaniel Turner arrived in Whangaroa Harbour in August 1823 with the Revd.Samuel Marsden, a Church Missionary Society (CMS), member who assisted the Wesleyan mission purchase land from the local Māori.