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Title
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Mott, Lucretia Coffin (1793-1880)
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birthday
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1793-01-03
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Birthplace
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Nantucket, MA
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Death Date
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1880-11-11
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Occupation
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Abolitionist
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Women's rights activist
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Social reform activist
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Biographical Text
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Lucretia Scott was an American abolitionist, social reform and women's rights activist, and educator. At 13, Mott enrolled in the Nine Partners School, and would become a teacher there at 15. After three years of preaching, Mott, a life-long Quaker, was recorded as a minister by her Friends Meeting. ...
On April 10, 1811, Lucretia Coffin married James Mott, a Quaker businessman, in Philadelphia. They had six children together: Anna, Maria, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Martha. One child did not live to adulthood. Mott died in 1880 of pneumonia at her home, Roadside, now located in Cheltenham, PA.
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Contributor
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Sciancalepore, Victoria
