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Wendell Phillips (search for this): chapter 32
her life Mrs. Mott kept a diary, quaint and pleasant reading, but too long for quotation here. To her infinite surprise the convention to which she was a delegate refused to admit her, except as a listener behind the bar, because she was a woman. The great world's convention of 1840! This action in excluding women caused general indignation. William Lloyd Garrison and party, who also were delegates, in protest refused to take part in the convention, as did many others, among them Wendell Phillips and his new-made wife. It was in London that she made the acquaintance of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and formed a life-long friendship. Their exclusion from the convention on account of sex brought her for the first time face to face with the reality of the subjection of woman. In the Society of Friends she had been accustomed to see members valued more for their individual merit than for the accident of sex, and this indignity sinking deep into her heart, she resolved to do her best t
Thomas Clarkson (search for this): chapter 32
child as Lucretia, but though restless she was not unruly, and was quick to appropriate to her own needs the spiritual admonitions of the preachers, as if their words were especially addressed to her. Conscious of a wayward spirit, she had many difficulties to overcome, but she tried to do right, praying for strength to overcome a naturally hasty temper. Her reading book at school was called Mental Improvement, by Priscilla Wakefield, including pictures of slave ships, as presented by Thomas Clarkson, the English philanthropist. These attracted her attention, and early enlisted her sympathy for the slave and fostered her abhorrence of the institution of slavery. One of her favorite couplets from the copybook was Learn to avoid what thou believ'st is sin, Mind what reproves, or justifies, within. No act is good that doth disturb thy peace, Or can be bad which makes true joy increase. Captain Coffin's last cruise was made in 1800, when Lucretia was seven years old. He sailed
Cowper (search for this): chapter 32
y of grammar, which liking she succeeded in imparting to her pupils. She was very critical of their pronunciation and their choice of language, making nice discriminations between words in a precise and antiquated style easily imitated by the mimic. An appreciative lover of English poetry, Susan Marriott taught her pupils to love it too, and gave them selected passages to learn by heart as a regular school exercise. It was to this influence that Lucretia owed her familiarity with Milton, Cowper and Young, and above all, the Bible. The scope of studies was not wide, but it was all that Quakerism then demanded, including the use of the globes. Their first map was one presented to the school by Captain Coffin in 1807. Lucretia made such good progress that at the age of fifteen she was made assistant teacher, and a year after regular teacher, her services entitling a younger sister to her education. A teacher's salary was about $100 a year with board. During this last year in the
James Mott (search for this): chapter 32
e Partners, N. Y., where her future husband, James Mott, was already a teacher on the boys' side of fair punishment. Once when one of the boys, James Mott's cousin and a favorite with her, was shut ion, formed a French class. Among these were James Mott and Lucretia Coffin. Even at that early daytal trips on horseback to Ohio and New York, James Mott settled in Philadelphia. Meantime two child It was in 1815 that they became members (or James Mott did, I fear women were not allowed) of the A the call appeared and the meeting was held, James Mott in the chair. This was the famous Seneca Faginning of a movement now worldwide. It led Mrs. Mott into even greater publicity than had the hat, when one of them had an attack of cholera, Mrs. Mott writes, I sent for extra help, but with our was pursued to their door by a hooting mob. James Mott opened the door, the man dashed in, and withll street, where he successfully escaped. As Mr. Mott stood at the door a brick was thrown violentl[5 more...]
Benjamin Franklin (search for this): chapter 32
d at Trenton at half past 7. He was then put to bed and slept quietly all night. The steamboat was quite a relief, and we reached Philadelphia at 12 o'clock the next day. Of their little daughter, Anna, then two and a half years old, they write, We have much neglected teaching our Anna until within a few weeks. She learns quickly, and begins to spell. It was in 1815 that they became members (or James Mott did, I fear women were not allowed) of the Abolition Society, founded by Benjamin Franklin, who was its first president, for promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the conditions of the African race. Business did not prosper, so that Lucretia found it best to return to her old occupation as teacher and opened a small school with four scholars at $7 a quarter. This school enlarged to a satisfactory success, and business also changed for the better, but sorrow almost overwhelmed them in the death of the
Mayhew Folger (search for this): chapter 32
ases, some of which Lucretia remembered after she was an old woman of seventy. Luckily, this ill-starred voyage proved profitable, for the seal-skins forwarded to China by another vessel made good returns. Some years later his brother, Capt. Mayhew Folger, had his ship seized in the same way, but more fortunate than Captain Coffin, he recovered both ship and $44,000 damages. This Captain Folger was the one who in 1809 discovered the lost mutineers of the English ship Bounty on Pitcairn's ICaptain Folger was the one who in 1809 discovered the lost mutineers of the English ship Bounty on Pitcairn's Island in the Pacific, where they had remained unmolested for nineteen years. In seventh month, or July, 1804, Captain Coffin, with his family, removed to Boston, where he engaged in a profitable commercial business. This was the first time Lucretia or her sisters had ever left Nantucket, even for a visit, but, although she never returned to the island to live, Lucretia always regarded this first home with an affection different from that given to any other, and ever after Nantucket way becam
William Penn (search for this): chapter 32
8 in 1820, increasing to a little over $1,000 in 1824, but did not reach $1,700 till in the '30s, notwithstanding the birth of two more children. It was in those busy years that she read and reread with an absorbing interest the writings of William Penn. She had a folio copy of his works which she would lay open at the foot of her bed, then, drawing her chair near, with a baby on her lap or in the cradle at her feet, she would study the passages that had especially attracted her attention un the whole sentence,Men are to be judged by their likeness to Christ, rather than by their notions of Christ, asking if that was what they objected to. On their saying it was she quietly informed them that it was a quotation from their honored William Penn, and the Elders went their way in silence! It is painful to recur to this period of the life of Lucretia Mott—the period known as the Separation among Friends. She discovered that her failure to cooperate with those who seemed to her to be
Anna Coffin (search for this): chapter 32
ndchildren. In the room to the left of the front door Anna Coffin kept a small shop for the sale of East India goods, brouslanders filled the hospitable houses to overflowing. Anna Coffin, like the rest of the women whose husbands followed the is still there. When it was the aunts' turn to visit Anna Coffin the children would be sent early to bed with permission eace, Or can be bad which makes true joy increase. Captain Coffin's last cruise was made in 1800, when Lucretia was seveeged violation of neutrality and taken to Valparaiso. Captain Coffin undertook his own defence in the Spanish courts and obs ship seized in the same way, but more fortunate than Captain Coffin, he recovered both ship and $44,000 damages. This Capor nineteen years. In seventh month, or July, 1804, Captain Coffin, with his family, removed to Boston, where he engaged s. Their first map was one presented to the school by Captain Coffin in 1807. Lucretia made such good progress that at the
J. Mott Hallowell (search for this): chapter 32
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
Thomas (search for this): chapter 32
was exceedingly rough, large stones having been laid where the poles used to be, and only two passengers besides ourselves, so that we were obliged to keep little Thomas well wedged in, that he need not be thrown against the side of the stage; the pillow added much to his comfort and our convenience, as it enabled my James to hold. This school enlarged to a satisfactory success, and business also changed for the better, but sorrow almost overwhelmed them in the death of the darling little Thomas, a crushing blow to his mother, whose health suffered seriously in consequence. Under the solemn influence of this bereavement she was led into a deeper religiodelphia, a street now wholly given up to shops and offices. As no nurse was kept, Mrs. Mott was closely occupied by the care of her children, the fourth, another Thomas, having been born in 1823. She also did much of the housework, and all her own sewing, as they could afford only one servant and felt the necessity of strict eco
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