Editing Seneca Falls Convention (section)

=== Announcement ===

[[File:ElizabethCadyStanton-1848-Daniel-Henry.jpg|thumb|[[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] in 1848 with two of her three sons]]

After Quaker worship on Sunday July 9, 1848, Lucretia Coffin Mott joined [[Mary Ann M'Clintock]], [[Martha Coffin Wright]] (Mott's witty sister, several months pregnant),<ref>National Park Service. Women's Rights. [http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/martha-c-wright.htm ''Martha C. Wright'']. Retrieved on April 24, 2009.</ref> Elizabeth Cady Stanton and [[Jane Hunt]] for tea at the [[Hunt House (Waterloo, New York)|Hunt home]] in Waterloo. The two eldest M'Clintock daughters, Elizabeth and Mary Ann Jr. may have accompanied their mother.<ref name=Wellman186>Wellman, 2004, p. 186</ref> Jane Hunt had given birth two weeks earlier, and was tending the baby at home. Over tea, Stanton, the only non-Quaker present, vented a lifetime's worth of pent-up frustration, her "long-accumulating discontent"<ref name="Stanton, 1881">Stanton, 1881</ref> about women's subservient place in society. The five women decided to hold a women's rights convention in the immediate future, while the Motts were still in the area,<ref name="wellman-189"/> and drew up an announcement to run in the ''Seneca County Courier''. The announcement began with these words:  "WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION.—A Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".<ref name=wellman-189/>
The notice specified that only women were invited to the first day's meetings on July 19, but both women and men could attend on the second day to hear Lucretia Mott speak, among others.<ref name="wellman-189"/> On July 11, the announcement first appeared, giving readers just eight days' notice until the first day of convention.<ref>National Park Service. Women's Rights. [http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/jane-hunt.htm ''Jane Hunt'']. Retrieved on April 24, 2009.</ref> Other papers such as Douglass's ''[[North Star (USA newspaper)|North Star]]'' picked up the notice, printing it on July 14.<ref name="wellman-189">Wellman, 2004, p. 189</ref> The meeting place was to be the [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Seneca Falls, New York)|Wesleyan Methodist Chapel]]<ref>National Park Service. Women's Rights. [http://www.nps.gov/wori/historyculture/wesleyan-chapel.htm ''Wesleyan Chapel'']. Retrieved on April 24, 2009.</ref> in Seneca Falls. Built by a congregation of abolitionists and financed in part by Richard Hunt,<ref name="nps quakers"/> the chapel had been the scene of many reform lectures, and was considered the only large building in the area that would open its doors to a women's rights convention.<ref name="wellman-189"/>