Two months after his purchase of Fuseng-be, Francis acquired another two African girls to add to his supply of household labour. He took two girls named Creasa and Sasia from among the Africans disembarked from the Baltimore and the Eliza. He paid $\$ 20$ for each girl, and this must have seemed a good deal compared to the amount he had paid for Fuseng-be just two months earlier. The manner in which Ludlam dispersed the Africans among the settlers reflected administrative confusion about what should happen after their release. He may have envisaged that the settlers would take responsibility for the training and education of the Africans in the form of apprenticeship but, judging by the testimony from officials and settlers in Freetown, this payment of $\$ 20$ a head created the impression that they had been sold to them as property. The two girls were no doubt placed in Francis's household, and it is possible that they provided companionship for Fuseng-be.  
It is unclear how long Fuseng-be remained in the household of Warwick Francis. Although McGregor had initially advised Francis that he should allow her to return to her home, she was formally allocated as an apprentice to him following the adjudication of her case by the Vice-Admiralty Court in 1809. In effect, her appeal for help to the colonial authorities had failed. Admittedly, it was her mistress whom she had accused of cruelty, but allocating Fuseng-be