She became distinguished after the American Revolutionary War, in New York City's fashionable society, as a gifted and accomplished woman, although her married life was rendered unhappy by a profligate husband.

Shortly after her birth, the family moved to their country estate in Tomhannock, a small village north of Albany, where they lived in the "most perfect tranquility"[2] until the outbreak of the American Revolution.

[4] Sometime after her mother's death, she and her father moved to New York City where she continued her education and began to write.

She had strong political views and concentrated her writings around the anti-slavery movement, her support of the French Revolution and her disapproval of capital punishment.

In June 1791, The New York Magazine published Faugères essay Fine Feelings Exemplified in the Conduct of a Negro Slave in which she challenged Thomas Jefferson's claim that slaves lacked "finer feelings",[4] she wrote, I cannot help thinking that their sensations, mental and external, are as acute as those of the people whose skin may be of a different colour; such an assertion may be bold, but facts are stubborn things, and had I not them to support me, it is probable I should not attempt to oppose the opinions of such an eminent reasoner.Her support of the French Revolution was probably shaped by her friendship with a French physician, Peter Faugères, who shared her political views.

Her marriage proved to be miserable; it became widely known that her husband abused her and within just a few years managed to squander her large fortune.

It was her major literary achievement, a blank-verse tragedy in four acts which echoed her views on human rights.

She died on January 9, 1801, in Brooklyn and is buried next to her father in the Bowery Methodist Church cemetery.