Career
She was part of the first wave of Christian missionaries to go overseas from the United States. Many children were named for her over the following decades including Harriet Newell Noyes who also went on to be a missionary. Along with Adoniram Judson and Ann Judson they went off to preach in India and Burma.
They were expelled by the East India Company and went on to Mauritius, where she died November 30, 1812.
She had given birth to a child who died after five days. Her memoirs were published posthumously, going into a number of editions.