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He soon became a merchant there and Lucretia and one of her sisters went to the Quaker school, Nine Partners in Dutchess County. Soon Lucretia was known as a “Hicksite”, or a follower of a “fiery” Quaker abolitionist, Elias Hicks. After Lucretia completed all of the work for the course, she stayed on at Nine Partners as a teachers’ assistant, when she was very surprise-stricken about the salary difference of male and female instructors. At Nine Partners, she met her husband, James Mott. He happened to be the grandson of the superintendent of the school. n 1811 James and Lucretia tied the knot and got married, they also had six children, but only five of the six would su