[Banknote from my collection].[PENNSYLVANIA] BANK OF MIDDLETOWN . $5.00.July 1, 1844.[Counterfeit] Underwood, Bald, Spencer & Hufty, Philada./Danforth, Underwood & Co. New York. Mother and infant seated. Male portrait in the left panel; ornate FIVE in the right end panel. Haxby PA-300 -G8. Women in Pennsylvania: Catherine Smith, for example, manufactured musket barrels for the Revolutionary Army, and the mythical battle heroine Molly Pitcher was probably also a Pennsylvanian. Sara Franklin Bache and Ester De Berdt Reed organized a group of 2,200 Pennsylvania women to collect money, buy cloth, and sew clothing for Revolutionary soldiers. Lucretia Mott, a Quaker preacher and teacher, was one of four women to participate at the formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1833, and became president of the Female Anti-Slavery Society. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton she launched the campaign for womens rights at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Jane Grey Swisshelm, abolitionist and advocate of womens rights, used newspapers and lectures. In 1848, she launched her abolitionist paper, The Saturday Visiter, which featured antislavery propaganda and womens rights. Her essays influenced the state legislature to grant married women the right to own property
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