Phebe Ann Coffin Hannaford
Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford was a Christian Universalist minister and biographer who was active in championing universal suffrage and womens rights. She was the first woman ordained as a Universalist minister in New England and the first woman to serve as chaplain to the Connecticut state legislature.
Phebe Hanaford was born on May 6, 1829 in Siasconset on Nantucket Island to Phebe Ann Coffin and George W. Coffin, a shipowner and a merchant. Phebes father remarried the following year, to Emmeline Cartwright from this union, Phebe gained an older stepbrother and seven younger halfsiblings.5 The Coffins were a Quaker family descended from the early Nantucket European settlers Tristram Coffin, Peter Foulger, and Mary Morrill further back, her ancestry traces to Degory Priest, pilot of the Mayflower.xvii
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