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Lucretia Coffin Mott was born a Quaker in Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1793. At the age of 13, Lucretia Coffin was sent to a co-educational Quaker school in New York where she met her future husband James Mott. From 1808-1810 she was an assistant teacher, before she moved to Philadelphia where she lived for the rest of her life. In 1811 Lucretia Coffin married James Mott. James Mott worked in the cotton and wool trade, but later focused only on the wool trading as a protest against the slavery-dependent cotton industry in the South. Between 1812 and 1828 the Motts had six children. In 1818 Lu