 Anna Maria accompanied Mr. Falconbridge on some of his visits to the main land.“During her stay Anna Maria observed all she could of the country and its people, their customs, religion, and economy, and wrote about what she saw.”2

Anna Maria's second trip to Africa people had been sent to form a colony by bringing freed slaves to the settlement.Falconbridge was appointed commercial agent, leaving his small medical practice for the good salary offered by the Sierra Leone Company (SLC).