She started travelling locally within a few years and she was visiting London and in 1712 she took a ferry to Ireland. In 1717 she had travelled north to Scotland. In 1718, Elizabeth Beck Rawlinson, Thomas Chalkley and Lydia went to America. Elizabeth was her sister in law, married to her brother Abraham. Chalkley was English but he had his own ship and he had moved to Philadelphia in 1701 where he continued to tour and speak.
