It proved to be more satisfactory than anything they had seen, and they decided to take it.

Joshua Read who, during all these years, had carefully protected the portion which his sister, Mrs.Anthony, had inherited from their father, took this to make the first payment on the farm.[8] They then returned to Center Falls and began preparations for what in those times was a long journey.
One warm day in the summer of 1845, several Quaker elders had stopped to dine at the Anthony home on their way to Quarterly Meeting.

Hannah and Susan were in the large, cool parlor working on the wonderful quilt which was to be a part of Hannah's wedding outfit, when one of the elders, a wealthy widower from Vermont, asked Susan to get him a drink.
He followed her out to the well and there made her an offer of marriage, which she promptly refused.

He pictured his many acres, his fine home, his sixty cows, told her how much she looked like his first wife, begged her to take time to consider and he would stop on his way back to get her answer.

She assured him that it would be entirely unnecessary, as she was going with her father and mother to their new home and did not want to marry.