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==First marriage==

While working at her job, she fell in love with another apprentice, John Ross who was the son of an [[Episcopal]] assistant rector at [[Christ Church]] Pennsylvania and was himself a member of the Episcopal clergy. As the Quakers disapproved strongly of interdenominational marriages,like her mother and fagherfather the couple eloped across the [[Delaware River]] to [[New Jersey]] in [[1773]] where they were married by [[William Franklin]], [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s son. The couple were subsequently disowned by the Quaker church.

Less than two years later, they started their own upholstering business. However, their business was badly affected by the [[American Revolutionary War]] with fabric being hard to obtain and business slow. John joined the Pennsylvania militia and was mortally wounded in an gunpowder explosion in [[1776]], after which Betsy took full charge of the upholstering business.