Chapter 13

NEW JERSEY.

Women Voted in the Early Days--Deprived of the Right by Legislative Enactment in 1807--Women Demand the Restoration of Their Rights in 1868--At the Polls in Vineland and Roseville Park--Lucy Stone Agitates the Question--State Suffrage Society Organized in 1867--Conventions--A Memorial to the Legislature--Mary F. Davis--Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford--Political Science Club-- Mrs. Cornelia C. Hussey--Orange Club, 1870--Mrs. Devereux Blake gives the Oration, July 4, 1884--Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's Letter--The Laws of New Jersey in Regard to Property and Divorce--Constitutional Commission, 1873--Trial of Rev. Isaac M. See--Women Preaching in his Pulpit--The Case Appealed--Mrs. Jones, Jailoress--Legislative Hearings 476