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Eventually her father received a grant of land in Vermont which he began expanding with the intention of settling the family down permanently. However he fell ill and decided to return to Scotland temporarily in 1768. Shortly after their departure the American Revolution began and they never returned their land being seized by the colonials.

They moved back to Glasgow and later to Fort Augustus where Anne would eventually marry James Grant a minister who settled down with to start a family in the Highland parish of Laggan. Her husband died in 1800. Her next major work was her largest success though.