She was part of the original twelve companies of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to the Sandwich Islands between 1820 and 1848.

By Oct 1847, they were sailing aboard the Clipper ship, the “Somerset” to the Kingdom of Hawaii as members of the Twelfth Company of missionaries for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

She married for the second time in Oahu to Benjamin Franklin Pitman, Esq.,[3] an American pioneer settler and whaler from Massachusetts.

He was previously married to Chiefess Kinoʻole o Liliha, who controlled vast lands under King Kamehameha III.

Just weeks after giving birth, complications arose and Mrs. Benjamin F. Pitman died on March 6, 1859, in Hilo, Hawaii, at the age of 36.