Mary Coffin Starbuck

Mary Coffin Starbuck (February 20, 1645 – late 1717) was a Quaker leader from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She and her husband, Nathaniel Starbuck, were the first English couple to marry on Nantucket and were parents to the first white child born on the island. She supported her husband's efforts to run a trading post, which grew into a large mercantile business with the advent of the whaling trade. and because a lot of public business was performed there.

Colonial Nantucket Wampanoag traded with the Starbucks to purchase notions for making clothes. Nathaniel operated a trading post, bartering goods with the Wampanoag, and Mary performed the bookkeeping. Initially, Native people hunted birds and fished for their livelihood, and traded fish and bird feathers for goods. As the settlement of Europeans was established, Native Americans adopted the agricultural economy. The mercantile business expanded with the advent of the whaling industry and supplied residents with items such as candles, clothing, fabric, notions, molasses, and knives.

During the Half-Share Revolt, she ensured that she and her husband supported her father and not Nathaniel's father, Edward Starbuck.

Converted by Quaker missionary John Richardson Starbuck established the Quaker congregation in Nantucket, as well as November 13 Lucretia Mott was one of her descendants.