On May 12, 1859, the Ninth National Woman’s Rights Convention was held at Mozart Hall in New York City. With women’s rights activist and social reformer Lucretia Mott presiding, Caroline Dall, a feminist author, journalist, lecturer, and champion of women’s rights, read the convention’s resolutions, all of which were adopted. Among the resolutions was one to send a “memorial” to the legislature in every state, demanding new laws that would guarantee women the right to a trial by jury of female peers, the right to vote for representatives, the right to retain their own wages, and the “right to person, property, children, and home.”