Women's Rights: First Women's Rights Convention - Seneca Falls, NY

Women's Rights

First Women's Rights Convention in the World

Seneca Falls, NY

Exterior Plaque

GPS: N 42° 54.664 W 076° 47.975

Short Description:

The first Women's Rights Convention in the world took place in the Wesleyan Chapel at just east of 136 Fall Street in Seneca Falls, NY.

Wesleyan Chapel

Wesleyan Chapel 

Long Description:

Interior Plaque

On the east wall of the Wesleyan Chapel and again on the interior wall there is a nicely done bronze plaque identifying this as the site of the first Women's Rights Convention in the world. The plaques have a bas-relief sculpture of a women's rights advocate in period dress and the following inscription:

On this spot stood the Wesleyan Chapel

where the First Woman's Rights Convention

in the World's history was held 

July 19 and 20 1848

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Elizabeth Caty Stanton 

move the resolution

which was seconded by Fredrick Douglass

"That it is the duty of the Women 

of this country to secure to themselves

their sacred right

to the franchise

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Some of the signers of the declaration of Rights

Lucretia Mott - Jacob P Chamberlain - Martha Wright - Elisha Foote

Amy Post - Charles J Hoskins - Mary Ann McClintok - Richard Hunt

Lovina Latham - Jonathan Metcalf - Mary H Hallowell - Henry Seymour