On this list, still in existence, are "underclothes of wife and daughters," "spectacles of Mr.and Mrs.Anthony," "pocket-knives of boys," "scraps of old iron"-- and the law took all except the bare necessities.

In this hour of extremity the guardian angel appeared in the person of Joshua Read, a brother of Mrs.Anthony, from Palatine Bridge, N.Y., who bid in all which the family desired to keep and restored to them their possessions, making himself their lenient creditor.
The winter of 1839 Susan attended the home school, taught by Daniel Wright, a fine scholar and remarkably successful teacher.

This ended her school days, and in her journal she says: "I probably shall never go to school again, and all the advancement which I hereafter make must be by my own exertions." In March, 1839, the family moved to Hardscrabble, a small village two miles further down the Battenkill.

They went on a cold, blustering day, and one may imagine the feelings of Daniel and Lucy Anthony and their older children as they turned away from their big factory, their handsome home and the friends they had learned to love.

Mrs.Anthony's heart was overflowing with sorrow, for in less than five years she had lost by death her little daughter, her father and mother, and now was swept away her home hallowed by their beloved memories.
In his prosperous days Daniel Anthony had built a satinet factory and a grist-mill at Hardscrabble and, although these were mortgaged heavily, he hoped to weather the financial storm and through them to build up again his fallen fortunes.