Born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Coffin
and Anna (Folger) Coffin
Sister of
Thomas Mayhew Coffin and Martha (Coffin) Wright
Wife of
James Mott
— married
10 Apr 1811 in Pine Street Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Descendants 
Mother of
Maria (Mott) Davis and Thomas Coffin Mott
Died
at age 87
in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, USA
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Biography
Lucretia (Coffin) Mott was a part of the Suffragette Movement.
Lucretia (Coffin) Mott is Notable.
Lucretia Coffin was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the second child of eight by Thomas and Anna (Folger) Coffin.
Education
At the age of thirteen, she was sent to the Nine Partners Quaker Boarding 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.
Women's Rights
Her interest in women's rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid three times as much as the female staff. After her family moved to Philadelphia, she and James Mott, another teacher at Nine Partners, followed.
Marriage
On April 10, 1811, Lucretia Coffin married James Mott at Pine Street Meeting in Philadelphia. They had six children. Their second child, Thomas Coffin, died at age two. Their surviving children all became active in the anti-slavery and other reform movements.
- Their Children included:
- Marion (1818-1897)[1]
- Thomas Coffin, born on 8 August 1823[2]
- Elizabeth (1826-1865)[3]
- Martha (1830-1916)[4]
Abolitionist
Lucretia Mott was a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society. In June 1840 she attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention. Activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her husband Henry B. Stanton attended the convention while on their honeymoon. Stanton admired Mott, and the two women became friends and allies. It is believed that she, her husband and John Comly were collectively the authors of An Epistle from the Yearly Meeting of Friends in Philadelphia to People of Color.
Death
Mott died on November 11, 1880 of pneumonia at her home, Roadside, in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. She was buried in the Quaker Fairhill Burial Ground in North Philadelphia. Her Memorial has pictures, a biography, and a link to her husband, James' Memorial
She is commemorated in a sculpture by Piablo Picasso at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse, unveiled in 1997.[5]
Obituary
- On This Day
- November 12, 1880
- By THE NEW YORK TIMES
- Lucretia Mott died last evening at her residence, near Philadelphia, in her eighty-eighth year. Mrs. Mott, whose name was probably as widely known as that of any other public woman in this or the preceding generation, was born in the old whaling town of Nantucket on the 3d of January, 1793. Her maiden name was Coffin. When 11 years old, her parents removed to Boston, where she went to school, finishing her education at a young ladies' boarding school in Dutchess County, N.Y., in which, when only 15 years old, she became a teacher.
- In 1809 she rejoined her parents, who had removed to Philadelphia, and in 1811, two years later, was married to James Mott. She was then in her nineteenth year. Her husband went into partnership with her father, Mr. Coffin, and Mrs. Mott again turned her attention to educational matters. In 1817 she took charge of a school in Philadelphia, and in 1818 began to preach. She made extended pilgrimages through New-England, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of Virginia advocating Quaker principles and waging at the same time a vigorous warfare against the evils of intemperance and slavery. In the division of the Society of Friends in 1827 she adhered to the Hicksites. Mrs. Mott took a prominent part in organizing the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1833, and was a delegate to the famous World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840, where, in company with other female delegates, she was refused admission on account of her sex. She was also prominent in the original Woman's Rights Convention held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848, over which her husband, James Mott, presided. During the last 30 years she has been conspicuous in such gatherings and in annual meetings of the Society of Friends. Among her published works are "Sermons to Medical Students" and "A Discourse on Women."
Links
- Wikipedia, Lucretia Mott
- What Made Lucretia Mott One of the Fiercest Opponents of Slavery and Sexism
- National Women's Hall of Fame, 1983
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW7L-C2F : 2 March 2021), Lucretia Coffin in entry for Marion Mott Davis, 06 Aug 1897; citing Yarmouth, Massachusetts, v 472 p 33, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 961,521.
- ↑ "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CTT-LPJY : 11 January 2021), Thomas Mott, 1823
- ↑ "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK78-LMP : 18 February 2021), Lucretia Mott in entry for Elizabeth Mccavender, 04 Sep 1865; citing , Philadelphia City Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; FHL microfilm 1,987,151.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4CV-RM1 : 24 December 2020), Martha Mott in household of James Mott, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- ↑ This is a brief sketch taken from a much larger work at Lucretia Mott - Wikipedia
- "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK9J-C93 : 18 February 2021), Lucretia Mott, 11 Nov 1880; citing , Philadelphia City Archives and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; FHL microfilm 2,047,334.
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4CV-RMB : 24 December 2020), Lucretia Mott in household of James Mott, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX58-32C : 18 February 2021), Lucretia Mott in entry for James Mott, 1860. Cheltenham, Montgomery, Pennsylvania; Page: 125; Family History Library Film: 805143. 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
- "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ5W-K5J : 4 January 2021), Lucretia Mott, 1870. Cheltenham, Montgomery, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1377; Page: 303B; Family History Library Film: 552876. 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
- "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWNK-RM9 : 20 February 2021), Lucretia Mott, Cheltenham, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district ED 2, sheet 34C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,157.
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Birth: Jan. 3, 1793 Nantucket Nantucket County Massachusetts, USA Death: Nov. 11, 1880 Cheltenham Montgomery County Pennsylvania, USA
Quaker Abolitionist, Suffragist, and Educator. Lucretia Coffin was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and raised a Quaker. Lucretia married James Mott in 1811. In 1821, the couple moved to Philadelphia, and as a Quaker minister, Lucretia began her work. Quakers differed from other religions in their equal treatment of women. Like other Quakers, Mott was active in the abolitionist movement. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting had a strong anti-slavery position as early as 1758 through the work of John Woolman. Motts contribution to the abolition movement lay in her clear and reasoned explanation of how political advocacy could improve the pos
November 12, 1880 OBITUARY Lucretia Mott By THE NEW YORK TIMES Lucretia Mott died last evening at her residence, near Philadelphia, in her eighty-eighth year. Mrs. Mott, whose name was probably as widely known as that of any other public woman in this or the preceding generation, was born in the old whaling town of Nantucket on the 3d of January, 1793. Her maiden name was Coffin. When 11 years old, her parents removed to Boston, where she went to school, finishing her education at a young ladies' boarding school in Dutchess County, N.Y., in which, when only 15 years old, she became a teacher. In 1809 she rejoined her parents, who had removed to Philadelphia, and in 1811, two years later, was married to James Mott. She was then in her nineteenth year. Her husband went into partnership with her father, Mr. Coffin, and Mrs. Mott again turned her attention to educational matters. In 1817 she took charge of a school in Philadelphia, and in 1818 began to preach. She made extended pilgrimages through New-England, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of Virginia advocating Quaker principles and waging at the same time a vigorous warfare against the evils of intemperance and slavery. In the division of the Society of Friends in 1827 she adhered to the Hicksites. Mrs. Mott took a prominent part in organizing the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1833, and was a delegate to the famous World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840, where, in company with other female delegates, she was refused admission on account of her sex. She was also prominent in the original Woman's Rights Convention held at Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848, over which her husband, James Mott, presided. During the last 30 years she has been conspicuous in such gatherings and in annual meetings of the Society of Friends. Among her published works are "Sermons to Medical Students" and "A Discourse on Women."