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About the 21st year of her age she was married to Benjamin Coope, and settled in the verge of Bradford meeting, of which she was a diligent attender, and increas’d in usefulness among them, labouring with friends in supporting Church discipline, and visiting those who miss'd their way. She several years acted as clerk to their mo. Meeting. In the year 1804 information was sent down from the yearly meeting to the quarterly and monthly meetings that the settlement made by friends among the na- tives on the Allegany river was now so advanced as to need the assistance of females in instructing and exampleling their sex in domesting concerns. request- ing that if a suitably qualifyed friend &; his companion should feel their minds engaged in the concern to come forward as vo- lunteers. When it information was spread in the monthly and quarterly meetings of which she was a member her and her husband’s minds became