Participants of the First Women's Rights Convention

 

 

Signers of the Declaration of Sentiments

Lucretia Mott Harriet Cady Eaton Margaret Pryor Elizabeth Cady Stanton Eunice Newton Foote Mary Ann M'Clintock Margaret Schooley Martha C. Wright Jane C. Hunt Amy Post Catherine F. Stebbins Mary Ann Frink Lydia Mount Delia Matthews Catharine C. Paine Elizabeth W. M'Clintock Malvina Seymour Phebe Mosher Catherine Shaw Deborah Scott Sarah Hallowell Mary M'Clintock Mary Gilbert Sophrone Taylor Cynthia Davis Hannah Plant Lucy Jones Sarah Whitney Mary H. Hallowell Elizabeth Conklin Sally Pitcher Mary Conklin Susan Quinn Mary S. Mirror	Phebe King Julia Ann Drake Charlotte Woodward Martha Underhill Dorothy Matthews Eunice Barker Sarah R. Woods Lydia Gild Sarah Hoffman Elizabeth Leslie Martha Ridley Rachel D. Bonnel Betsey Tewksbury Rhoda Palmer Margaret Jenkins Cynthia Fuller Mary Martin P.A. Culvert Susan R. Doty Rebecca Race Sarah A. Mosher Mary E. Vail Lucy Spalding Lavinia Latham Sarah Smith Eliza Martin Maria E. Wilbur Elizabeth D. Smith Caroline Barker Ann Porter Experience Gibbs Antoinette E. Segur Hannah J. Latham Sarah Sisson	Richard P. Hunt Samuel D. Tillman Justin Williams Elisha Foote Frederick Douglass Henry W. Seymour Henry Seymour David Salding William G. Barker Elias J. Doty John Jones William S. Dell James Mott William Burroughs Robert Smalldridge Jacob Matthews Charles L. Hoskins Thomas M'Clintock Saron Phillips Jacob Chamberlain Jonathan Metcalf Nathan J. Milliken S.E. Woodworth Edward F. Underhill George W. Pryor Joel Bunker Isaac Van Tassel Thomas Dell E.W. Capron Stephen Shear Henry Hatley Azaliah Schooley

 

Non-Signer Participants

Three hundred people attended the 1848 convention in Seneca Falls. Only 100 people signed their names to the Declaration of Sentiments. For many, signing their name may have been dangerous, or exposed them to ridicule. The names signed to the document were published in newspapers following the convention, so the supporters would not have remained anonymous. Some may have faced danger from angry spouses, while others may have risked their freedom if they had fled slavery. Some husbands likely stood back in silent agreement, supporting their wives' agency, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton's husband Henry Stanton. Some attendees may have been children, and some simply may not have been thoroughly convinced by the Declaration of Sentiments. Whatever their reasons, their presence at the convention went unrecorded, but not unremembered. We remember them here, and we celebrate their contribution to American history and the cause of women's rights.