EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN EARLY 1800: MARY ANN WILSON MCCLINTOCK P/46

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In this story I focus on a woman named Mary Ann Wilson McClintock. She lived from 1800 - 1884. Mary Ann was born in Burlington, New Jersey, of Quaker parents. She attended Westtown School in 1814 for one year. She married Thomas McClintock in 1820 and moved with him to 107 South Nine Street, his store in Philadelpia. They lived in Philadelphia for the first seventeen years of their marriage. Mary Ann and her husband were active members of the Philadelphia Quaker community and were recognised by their meetings as leaders.

Mary Ann and her family moved to Waterloo, New York, sometime in 1835-1836, where Thomas had purchased a drugstore. He later added a stationery and a book section. At the store, anti-slavery petitions were circulated, temperance meetings were held, and a school was run in two rooms above the drugstore.

Mary Ann and her husband became active members in several social reform movements in Western New York - the abolition of slavery and temperance. She and her husband offered their home to fugitive slaves as a station on the Underground Railroad. 

In 1842 Mary Ann and her husband became founding members of the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society and helped write its constitution.

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