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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., Lucretia Mott. (search)
Lucretia Mott. by Anna D. Hallowell. [Read before the Medford Historical Society, February 20, 1911, by J. Mott Hallowell, Esq.] Preface. All over this broad land of ours one can meet people who claim with pride their Nantucket descent. The word is an open sesame to the warmest hospitality, an unfailing link between those who had been strangers. Ah! from Nantucket did you say? So am I! Come in, and you are at home. The writer, although the third generation away from this blessed little island, almost feels that she was born there, so carefully and lovingly have its traditions been held before her. Lucretia Mott, the subject of this paper, though living only for her first eleven years on the island, always claimed to be a Nantucket woman. And no wonder! On the third of January, 1793, a little girl was born on the island of Nantucket who was destined to a great work and wide influence in her long life. On both her father's and mother's side she was descended throu