Harriet Bradford Stewart

Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart (June 24, 1798 – September 6, 1830) was an American missionary to the Sandwich Islands. Early life Harriet Bradford Tiffany was born near Stamford, Connecticut, on June 24, 1798. Her father, Isaiah Tiffany (1759-1800), was an officer in the Continental Army, and her mother Anne Whiting (1762-1830) was a descendant of William Bradford, the leader of the pilgrims of Leiden, and for thirty years, the governor of Plymouth Colony. When a child, Stewart was known for a sweet disposition and a lively sensibility. Gouverneur Morris, who was in the habit of meeting her at the springs of Lebanon, often spoke of her as presenting at this period one of the most perfect pictures of beautiful childhood he had ever seen. Stewart's father died while she was very young, and she passed her youth chiefly under the guardianship of an uncle, in Albany, New York. But the marriage of an elder sister, in 1815, to a gentleman of Cooperstown, New York, led her from that time to make his house her home. The appointment of her brother, soon after, to the rectorship of the Episcopal Church in that village, brought all the members of her family closer together.