In 1680 she gave the Quakers a 1,000 year lease on a yard in Jesus Lane in Cambridge.
However the current building dates, in part, to 1777 as the meeting house has been rebuilt several times.
[3] Docwra wrote several tracts on the subject of religious toleration, including A looking-glass for the recorder and justices of the peace and grand juries for the town and county of Cambridge (1682).
[4] She was involved in controversies within the Quaker movement about organisational structure, and opposed the establishment of separate men's and women's meetings for church affairs.
[5] Francis Bugg, her nephew and a former Quaker, conducted a long and bitter dispute with leading figures of the Quaker movement, including Docwra.