She attended the district school, was a fair writer and speller and, like her father very fond of reading.

She learned to cook and sew, make butter and cheese, spin and weave, and was very domestic in all her tastes.

The Reads and Anthonys were near neighbors, and although differing widely in religious belief, a subject of much prominence in those days, they were on terms of intimate friendship even before the ties were made still closer by marriage between the two families.
Both Anthonys and Laphams were Quakers as far back as the sect was in existence.

Both were families of wealth and influence, and when Humphrey and Hannah were married she received from her parents a house and thirty acres of land, which were entailed on her children.

Silver spoons are still in the family, which were part of her dowry more than a century ago.