Jeri L Duke

The Faraway Spirit Jeri L Duke

This book is a historically based story about the purchase of Nantucket Island by the Coffin family and several others in the 1600's. I chose my main character as Mary (Coffin) Starbuck, known as 'The Great Mary', the most prominent woman at that time and who embraced the religion of Friends Society. It is written through her eyes beginning in her teenage years through adulthood when she embraces the Quaker religion and establishes the Friends Meeting there in 1701. This endeavor is close to my heart and has taken me many years to complete. The researching of the island history has been closely documented it in my book. The day-to-day activities have been fictionalized.