<P> 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), Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Jane Hunt for tea at the Hunt home in Waterloo . The two eldest M'Clintock daughters, Elizabeth and Mary Ann, Jr. may have accompanied their mother . 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" 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, 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". 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 . On July 11, the announcement first appeared, giving readers just eight days' notice until the first day of convention . Other papers such as Douglass's North Star picked up the notice, printing it on July 14 . The meeting place was to be the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Seneca Falls . Built by a congregation of abolitionists and financed in part by Richard Hunt, 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 . </P> <P> At their home in Waterloo on Sunday, July 16, the M'Clintocks hosted a smaller planning session for the convention . Mary Ann M'Clintock and her eldest daughters, Elizabeth and Mary Ann, Jr., discussed with Stanton the makeup of the resolutions that would be presented to the convention for approval . Each woman made certain her concerns were appropriately represented among the ten resolutions that they composed . Taken together, the resolutions demanded that women should have equality in the family, education, jobs, religion, and morals . One of the M'Clintock women selected the Declaration of Independence from 1776 as a model for the declaration they wanted to make at their convention . The Declaration of Sentiments was then drafted in the parlor on a round, three - legged, mahogany tea table . Stanton changed a few words of the Declaration of Independence to make it appropriate for a statement by women, replacing "The history of the present King of Great Britain" with "The history of mankind" as the basis for "usurpations on the part of man toward woman ." The women added the phrase "and women" to make "...all men and women are created equal ..." A list of grievances was composed to form the second part of the Declaration . </P> <P> Between July 16 and July 19, at home on her own writing desk, Stanton edited the grievances and resolutions . Henry Brewster Stanton, a lawyer, politician and Stanton's husband, helped substantiate the document by locating "extracts from laws bearing unjustly against woman's property interests ." On her own, Stanton added a more radical point to the list of grievances and to the resolutions: the issue of women's voting rights . To the grievances, she added "He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise", and to the Sentiments, she added a line about man depriving woman of "the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation ..." Stanton then copied the Declaration and resolutions into final draft form for presentation at the meeting . When he saw the addition of woman suffrage, Henry Stanton warned his wife "you will turn the proceedings into a farce ." He, like most men of his day, was not in favor of women gaining voting rights . Because he intended to run for elective office, he left Seneca Falls to avoid being connected with a convention promoting such an unpopular cause . Elizabeth Cady Stanton asked her sister Harriet Cady Eaton to accompany her; Eaton brought her young son Daniel . </P> <P> On July 16, Lucretia Mott sent a note to Stanton apologizing in advance for James Mott not being able to attend the first day, as he was feeling "quite unwell". Lucretia Mott wrote to say she would bring her sister, Martha Wright, and that the two women would participate in both days of the convention . </P>

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