Lucretia Coffin Mott

Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott at the age of 49 (1842), at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Born	Lucretia Coffin (1793-01-03)January 3, 1793 Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	November 11, 1880(1880-11-11) (aged 87) Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Abolitionist, suffragist, teacher
Spouse(s)	James Mott
Children	6
Parent(s)	Thomas Coffin Anna Folger
Relatives	Martha Coffin Wright (sister) Mayhew Folger (maternal uncle)

Lucretia Mott (née Coffin; January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840. In 1848 she was invited by Jane Hunt to a meeting that led to the first meeting about women's rights. Mott helped write the Declaration of Sentiments during the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

Lucretia Coffin was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the second child of eight by Anna Folger and Thomas Coffin. Through her mother she was a descendent of Peter Foulger and Mary Morrill. This ancestry links her to, among many other notable early Americans, Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

At the age of thirteen, she was sent to the Nine Partners School in what is now Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York, which was run by the Society of Friends. There she became a teacher after graduation. Her interest in women's rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid thrice as much as the female staff. After her family moved to Philadelphia, she and James Mott, another teacher at Nine Partners, followed.