Sarah Gibbons

Sarah Gibbons (1634/5 – 1659) was an English Quaker preacher in America.

[3] Gibbons was on board the Speedwell, she was 21 and few details are known of her early life.

[1] The other Quakers included William Brend, John Copeland, Christopher Holder, Mary Prince, Thomas Thrifton, Mary Weatherhead, and a maid (and preacher) named Dorothy Waugh.

[5][3] Their names were marked with a letter "Q"[4] and were arrested, interrogated and the colony kept them prisoners for eleven weeks.

Five were set ashore at the Dutch plantation of New Amsterdam (New York): Robert Hodgson, Richard Doudney, Sarah Gibbons, Mary Weatherhead, and Dorothy Waugh.