Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart

[2] Her father, Isaiah Tiffany (1759-1800), was an officer in the Continental Army,[3] 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.

Charles Samuel Stewart, who had been a US Navy chaplain,[5] but was then just appointed by the American Board of Foreign Missions as a missionary to the Sandwich Islands.

[4] In January 1822, after the decision to accept the marriage proposal was finalized, Stewart returned to Cooperstown, to pass a few weeks with her family, and to prepare for her departure.

In the appointments of the missionaries to the different islands of the group, soon after their landing, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. William Richards were assigned to Maui, three days’ sail from Oahu.

Their new home consisted of two small native huts, each of a single apartment, and furnished with mats, their trunks, and a few seats and tables made of the packing boxes they had carried from the U.S.

About six months afterward, she wrote to her friends,—[8]"We are most contented and most happy, and rejoice that God has seen fit to honor and bless us by permitting us to be the bearers of his light and truth to this dark corner of the earth.

"Stewart's health continued to be good until March 1825, when some overexertion during the illness of nearly all the other missionary members laid the foundation of a disease which in a few weeks, brought her near death.