nces, attentive listeners, and
was well received wherever I went.

But I can mention from memory the principal places where I have
spoken. In the winter of 1836 and '37, I spoke in New York, and
for some years after I lectured in almost every city in the
State; Hudson, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Schenectady; Saratoga,
Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Elmira, and other places; in
New Jersey, in Newark and Burlington; in 1837, in Philadelphia,
Bristol, Chester, Pittsburg, and other places in Pennsylvania,
and at Wilmington in Delaware; in 1842, in Boston, Charlestown,
Beverly, Florence, Springfield, and other points in
Massachusetts, and in Hartford, Connecticut; in 1844, in
Cincinnati, Dayton, Zanesville, Springfield, Cleveland, Toledo,
and several settlements in the backwoods of Ohio, and also in
Richmond, Indiana; in 1845 and '46, I lectured three times in the
Legislative Hall in Detroit, and at Ann Arbor and other places in
Michigan; and in 1847 and '48, I spoke in Charleston and
Columbia, in South Carolina.

In 1850, I attended the first National Woman's Rights Convention
in Worcester, and nearly all the National and State Conventions
since, until I went to Europe in 1869. Returning to New York in
1874, I was present at the Convention in Irving Hall, the only
one held during my visit to America.

I sent the first petition to the New York Legislature to give a
married woman the right to hold real estate in her own name, in
the winter of 1836 and '37, to which after a good deal of trouble
I obtained five signatures. Some of the ladies said the gentlemen
would laugh at them; others, that they had rights enough; and the
men said the women had too many rights already. Woman at that
time had not learned to know that she had any rights except those
that man in his generosity allowed her; both have learned
something since that time which they will never forget. I
continued sending petitions with increased numbers of signatures
until 1848 and '49, when the Legislature enacted the law which
granted to woman the right to keep what was her own. But no
sooner did it become legal than all the women said, "Oh! that is
right! We ought always to have had that."

During the eleven years from 1837 to 1848, I addressed the New
York Legislature fi