EVANGELICAL WOMAN IN EARLY 1800: LUCRETIA MOTT P/42

                                                               Read Part One HERE

In this post I focus on a woman named Lucretia Coffin Mott. She lived from 1793 - 1880.

Lucretia was born on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Her father's work as a ship's captain kept him away from his family for long stretches and could be hazardous - so much so that he moved his family to Boston and became a merchant when Lucretia was ten years old.

While in Boston, Lucretia attended public school for two years in accordance with her father's wish that she become familiar with the workings of democratic principles. At age 13 she was sent to a Quaker's boarding school near Poughkeepsie, New York, where two years later she was engaged as an assistant and later as a teacher. It was then that her interest in women's right began. Solely because of her sex, she was paid only half the salary male teachers were receiving. 

Lucretia and James Mott, a fellow teacher, were married in 1811. They had six children, five of whom survived adulthood. 

P.S. I will continue the story on Lucretia Mott in my next post.

Please read Part Forty-Three HERE