{"id":785,"slug":"m-clintock-house-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Declaration of Sentiments was drafted on a mahogany table in this house's front parlor. On July 16, 1848 — three days before the Seneca Falls Convention — Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Ann M'Clintock, Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright, and Jane Hunt gathered at 14 East Williams Street in Waterloo and wrote the document that opened the women's rights movement. Stanton remembered the scene: 'We looked over the declarations of societies we could find, but none touched our case, until at last, someone suggested our Fathers of 1776.' So they modeled it on Jefferson — 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.'","The M'Clintocks were the house behind the movement — radical Quakers who'd come to Waterloo from Philadelphia, ran a drugstore and school on Main Street, led the local Monthly Meeting, and ran a station on the Underground Railroad besides. In the same summer of 1848 they helped found the Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends — the 'Progressive Friends' who broke with the Hicksite Quakers over giving women equal voice. Three days after the parlor drafting, Thomas M'Clintock presided over the Seneca Falls Convention and their daughter Elizabeth served as secretary; at least half the Declaration's hundred signers were from Waterloo.","The mahogany center table where the women wrote survives — it's in the Smithsonian. The house is part of Women's Rights National Historical Park, restored to its 1848 parlor — the room where five women decided the Declaration of Independence needed a sequel.","The M'Clintock House is the archive's parlor file — the Waterloo house where the Declaration of Sentiments was written in the front room on July 16, 1848, by the Quaker abolitionist family who ran an Underground Railroad station in the same building."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The M'Clintock House is the archive's birthplace file — the Waterloo parlor where Stanton, M'Clintock, Mott, Wright, and Hunt drafted the Declaration of Sentiments on July 16, 1848, in the home of radical Quakers who also ran a station on the Underground Railroad.","A parlor that drafted a declaration keeps its table — the file's suggestion being that the M'Clintock House's hold is July 16: the Sunday morning five women wrote 'all men and women are created equal,' in the house where the Underground Railroad ran in the same rooms."]}],"name":"M'Clintock House","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD","CIVIL_RIGHTS"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.","full_desc":"A historic site in Waterloo, New York, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, M'Clintock House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. HauntHunt files it with dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.","address":"Women's Rights NHP","city":"Waterloo","county":"Seneca","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.904586,"lon":-76.859023,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"NPS public listing access field: Yes. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 11NY01, source row 237. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened. ","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":62.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.35,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"M'Clintock House is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"The 1848 drafting is documented. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic site; verify hours and access with the managing agency before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Underground Railroad","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[{"field_name":"short_description","existing_value":"NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.","incoming_value":"The Waterloo house—where the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"historic_designation","existing_value":"National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing","incoming_value":"NPS Network to Freedom","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"research_notes","existing_value":"Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 11NY01, source row 237. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened. ","incoming_value":"UGRR enrichment wave 2; VERIFY task auto-queued.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."}],"wiki":{"title":"M'Clintock House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M'Clintock_House","desc":"Historic house in New York, United States","extract":"M'Clintock House, also known as the Baptist Parsonage, is a historic home located at Waterloo in Seneca County, New York. It is a two-story, Federal style brick dwelling built in 1833–1836. The home is notable as the residence of Quaker pharmacist Thomas M'Clintock and his wife Mary Ann from 1836 to 1856. On July 16, 1848, the home was the location where the Declaration of Sentiments and other resolutions and speeches were drawn up for the subsequent First Women's Rights Convention.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/HUNT_HOUSE.jpg/330px-HUNT_HOUSE.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":93,"lat":42.90527778,"lon":-76.86166667},"counts":{"claims":0,"history":3,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}