Hunt House

On July 9, 1848 Jane Hunt, newly postpartum after the birth of her daughter Jenny, hosted a social gathering in Lucretia Mott's honor where those assembled decided to call the first ever women's rights convention in the U.S. At this tea party, Hunt and Mott, along with Mary Ann M'Clintock, Martha C. Wright, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton discussed the difficulty of living as women in 19th-century America. Stanton later wrote of that meeting in the Hunts' parlor:

"I poured out, that day, the torrent of my long-accumulating discontent, with such vehemence and indignation that I stirred myself, as well as the rest of the party, to do and dare anything... we decided, then and there, to call a 'Woman's Rights Convention.'"