His two daughters were well married, and Miss Anthony boarded with them during all of her three years' teaching in Canajoharie.

She found her uncle very ill and being treated by the doctor "with calomel, opium and morphine." In a conversation he told her that "her success would depend largely upon thinking that she knew it all." Although there was now no postmaster in the family, letter postage had been reduced to five cents, and a voluminous correspondence is in existence covering the period from 1846 to 1849.

The school commenced with forty boys and twenty-five girls, and the tuition was $5 per annum.

The principal was Daniel B.Hagar, a man whom Miss Anthony always loved to remember, highly educated, a gentleman in deportment, kind, thoughtful, and always ready to help and encourage the young teacher.[9] Here Miss Anthony was for the first time entirely away from Quaker surroundings and influences, and her letters soon show the effects of environment.

The "first month, second day," expressions are dropped and the "plain language" is wholly abandoned.