The orphaned niece of Sarah Ryan, she was taken into Mary Bosanquet's school at Leytonstone at the age of 4 and moved with the school to Cross Hall in 1768. When her aunt died in 1768 Miss Bosanquet became her adoptive mother and on her marriage to John Fletcher Sarah went with her to Madeley, where she worked with children and visited the sick. She began to take meetings and even ventured into the local public houses. She started to exhort, and perhaps to preach, and pioneered the work in the hamlet of Coalport.

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