Barnard, Hannah Jenkins (d. 1825)
Barnard, Hannah Jenkins (d. 1825)
American Quaker minister. Born c. 1754, most likely in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died 1825; m. Peter Barnard, before 1780.
In Hudson (NY) Quaker colony, served as highly respected minister of the Hudson Monthly Meeting (beginning 1793); conducted a religious visit to Friends in England, Scotland and Ireland with Elizabeth Hosier Coggeshall (beginning July 1798); charged with heresy at the London Yearly Meeting, was eventually censured and ordered home; silenced as a minister in America (1802) and disowned by the local meeting.
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