Although this house looks quite ordinary, the events which took place inside and the people who occupied its rooms were quite extraordinary. Inside the M'Clintock House of Waterloo, New York, the first women's rights document entitled the "Declaration of Sentiments" was drafted on July 16, 1848. The document was written up by Mary Ann M'Clintock, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, as well as three other women, for the First Women's Rights Convention which took place in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. It outlined the rights they wished to be granted to women as well as the important role they served in society. The document was ratified on the second day of the convention and was modeled after Thomas Jefferson's "Declaration of Independence.The "Declaration of Sentiments" which proclaimed that "all men and women are created equal" as well as the M'Clintock House and its occupants are so important to our history because they helped to grant women the rights that they deserve as well as outline their important role and power in society.
"Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation--in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States." -Declaration of Sentiments
Map of Waterloo/Seneca Falls
Floor Plan of the M'Clintock House
Cartoon from Elizabeth M'Clintock's point of view of the role of women
WHILE YOU'RE INWATERLOO...
-- Check out the National Memorial Day museum, a mansion filled with records and momentos from the Civil War era
-- Tour Elizabeth Cady Stanton's home in Seneca Falls to learn more about her amazing accomplishments
-- Visit the Women's Rights Historical Park to see where the convention took place
-- Go on a shopping trip at the Waterloo Premium Outlets which has over 100 stores
-- Walk the trails of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge to relax after a long day of sightseeing
Although this house looks quite ordinary, the events which took place inside and the people who occupied its rooms were quite extraordinary. Inside the M'Clintock House of Waterloo, New York, the first women's rights document entitled the "Declaration of Sentiments" was drafted on July 16, 1848. The document was written up by Mary Ann M'Clintock, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, as well as three other women, for the First Women's Rights Convention which took place in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. It outlined the rights they wished to be granted to women as well as the important role they served in society. The document was ratified on the second day of the convention and was modeled after Thomas Jefferson's "Declaration of Independence.The "Declaration of Sentiments" which proclaimed that "all men and women are created equal" as well as the M'Clintock House and its occupants are so important to our history because they helped to grant women the rights that they deserve as well as outline their important role and power in society.
"Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation--in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States." -Declaration of Sentiments
WHILE YOU'RE IN WATERLOO...
-- Check out the National Memorial Day museum, a mansion filled with records and momentos from the Civil War era
-- Tour Elizabeth Cady Stanton's home in Seneca Falls to learn more about her amazing accomplishments
-- Visit the Women's Rights Historical Park to see where the convention took place
-- Go on a shopping trip at the Waterloo Premium Outlets which has over 100 stores
-- Walk the trails of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge to relax after a long day of sightseeing