Women's Rights Special History Study

1. One Hundred Years of Service for Christ in the Wesleyan Methodist Church - 1844-1944 (Utica, New York, 1944), p. 41.

2. Wesleyan Methodist Church Records, Trustees Record Book #1 entry dated March 27, 1843, Seneca Falls Historical Society.

3. Church Records Collection, Seneca Falls Historical Society.

4. Quarterly Conference Minutes of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Seneca Falls, July 27, 1839, Department of Manuscripts and Archives, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

5. Glenn C. Altschuler and Jan M. Saltzgaber, Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-Over District - The Trial of Rhoda Bement (Ithaca, NY, 1983), pp. 19, 168.

6. Ibid., p. 149.

7. One Hundred Years, p. 41.

8. Wesleyan Methodist Church, Proceedings of Monthly Business Meetings Book #2, entry dated September 11, 1858, Seneca Falls Historical Society.

9. Wesleyan Methodist Church, Trustees Record Book #1, entry dated March 27, 1843, Seneca Falls Historical Society.

10. Ibid., April 20, 1843.

11. Ibid.

12. Ibid., January 14, 1844.

13. Barbara E. Pearson, "Architectural Study, Women's Rights National Historical Park" (unpublished manuscript, National Park Service, North Atlantic Historic Preservation Center, Boston, Mass., 1984), p. 1.

14. One Hundred Years, p. 8.

15. Ibid., p. 16.

16. Ibid., p. 12.

17. Ibid., p. 17

18. Altschuler and Saltzgaber, Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community, p. 117.

19. Ibid., p. 92.

20. Seneca Falls Democrat, March. 23, 1843.

21. Altschuler and Saltzgaber, Revivalism, p. 166.

22. Ibid., pp. 85, 168.

23. Wesleyan Methodist Church, Trustees Record Book #1, entry dated January 14, 1844, Seneca Falls Historical Society.

24. Bull, "Woman's Rights," p. 51.

25. Ibid., p. 45.

26. Wesleyan Methodist Church, Trustees Record Book #1, entry dated April 16, 1855.

27. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. I (New York, New York, 1881), p. 69.

28. Lucretia Mott to ECS, July 16, 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Library of Congress.

29. Stanton, et al., Woman Suffrage, p. 69.

30. Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 149.

31. Seneca Falls Revielle, July 30, 1880.

32. Bull, "Woman's Rights," p. 48.

33. Miriam Gurko, The Ladies of Seneca Falls: The Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement (New York, 1974), pp. 99-100.

34. Ibid., p. 99.

35. Conversations with Judith Wellman at Women's Rights National Historical Park, February 1984.

36. Gurko, Ladies of Seneca Falls, p. 100.

37. Stanton, et al., Woman Suffrage, p. 69.

38. Dorr, Susan B. Anthony, p. 49.

39. Stanton, et al., Woman Suffrage, p. 69.

40. Bull, "Woman's Rights," p. 50.

41. Stanton, et al., Woman Suffrage, p. 69.

42. "Report of the Woman's Rights Convention Held At Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19th and 20th, 1848," (Rochester, 1848), p. 3.

43. Ibid., p. 4

44. Ibid., pp. 3-5.

45. Ibid., p. 5.

46. Stanton, et al., Woman Suffrage, p. 73.

47. "Report of Convention," p. 8.

48. Ibid., p. 9.

49. Ibid.

50. Stanton, et al., Woman Suffrage, p. 73.

51. Stanton, Eighty Years, p. 149.

52. Ibid., p. 151.

53. Ibid., p. 152.

54. Manual of the Churches of Seneca County With Sketches of Their Pastors 1895-1896 (Seneca Falls, 1896), P. 171.

55. One Hundred Years, pp. 14-18.

56. Wesleyan Methodist Church Records, Seneca Falls Historical Society.

57. Manual of Churches, pp. 171-2.

58. Wesleyan Methodist Church Records, Seneca Falls Historical Society.

59. One Hundred Years, p. 172.

60. Wesleyan Methodist Church Records, Trustees Book #1, entries dated Nov. 7, 1870, Dec. 12, 1870, and March 1, 1871, Seneca Falls Historical Society.

61. Seneca Falls Revielle, August 13, 1875.