Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Mary Ann WILSON
Mary Ann M’Clintock was one of five women who planned the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 at the Waterloo home of Jane Hunt. The M’Clintock women, including Mary Ann and her older daughters (also buried at Fair Hill) along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton framed the famous Declaration of Sentiments, the first such document in the world.
Born Mary Ann Wilson in Burlington, New Jersey, of Quaker parents, she attended Westtown School in 1814 for one year. In 1820, she married fellow Quaker Thomas M’Clintock, a druggist and Biblical scholar, and moved with him to 107 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, where he operated a store. Thomas had been raised as a Presbyterian and became a Quaker by convincement in 1811. It was in Philadelphia that their children Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Sarah and Julia were born.
Both M’Clintocks were active abolitionists and reformers. Along with James and Lucretia Mott, they were active Hicksite Quakers and close associates of Elias Hicks. In 1827, Thomas was the first secretary of the Free Produce Society, which encouraged the abolitionists to buy goods not produced by slave labor through Free Produce stores. In 1833, Mary Ann participated in the creation of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery society. She helped with the Society’s first Anti-Slavery Fair in 1836 and in other anti- slavery fairs in upstate New York.
In 1837, the M’Clintocks and their children moved to Waterloo, New York, where they helped form the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, maintained an active role in abolitionist activities, became part of the Underground Railroad and supported numerous other reform causes. Their home there is now part of the Women’s Rights Historical Park and a national historic site. They returned to Philadelphia in the late 1850’s. Thomas died in 1876 and was buried at Fair Hill. Mary Ann remained active until her own death in 1884. She is buried next to her husband at Fair Hill.
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