She comes to notice in 1656 when she and Martha Simmonds began singing to interrupt Francis Howgill and Edward Hubberthorne at a Quaker meeting.
[1] In October she went with a group that included her husband John to request the release of James Nayler from the jail in Exeter.
They were all imprisoned and the local magistrates interrogated them before Nayler was dispatched to London to face trial for blasphemy.
The evidence included letters that Hannah had written to Nayler where she called him "only begotten son of God" and "Prince of Peace".
Hannah, Martha Simmonds and Dorcas Erbury were at the base of his pillory mirroring the three Mary's who were at Jesus's crucifixion.