The M'Clintock family were Quaker abolitionists who had organized the Waterloo antislavery society, circulated petitions, and refused to consume goods produced by enslaved labor, as did their Quaker neighbors throughout this corridor. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott decided to hold a women's rights convention in July 1848, the M'Clintock parlor was the natural meeting point. The mahogany table around which the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted is now in the Smithsonian. The house itself, a two-story Federal-style structure on East Williams Street, is part of the Women's Rights National Historical Park and open for tours seasonally. It sits on the same main street as the National Memorial Day Museum, making Waterloo a two-stop block worth the five-minute drive from Seneca Falls.















