Martha Coffin Wright (December 25, 1806 – 1875) was an American feminist, abolitionist, and signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments who was a close friend and supporter of Harriet Tubman.

[1] After spending 15 years in Philadelphia, Wright moved to Aurora, New York, in the Finger Lakes country, in November 1827.

Wright's older sister, Lucretia Coffin Mott, was a prominent Quaker preacher.

[2] During that visit, Wright and Lucretia met with Elizabeth Cady Stanton at Jane Hunt's house and decided to hold a convention in nearby Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss the need for greater rights for women.

With her sister Lucretia, Wright attended the founding meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1833.

[citation needed] In September 1852, Wright attended a convention in Syracuse, New York where she gave her first speech on women's rights.

[citation needed] Wright's home in Auburn, New York, was part of the Underground Railroad where she harbored fugitive slaves.

Seward's wife, Frances, and his sister, Lazette Worden, became interested in the works of the Women's Right movement, but never actively were involved.

Examples of such slaves and important figures were Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B.

[1] In 1824, Wright married Captain Peter Pelham (1785-1826) of Kentucky and moved with him to a frontier fort at Tampa Bay, Florida.

In 1864, Ellen Wright married William Lloyd Garrison Jr. (1838–1909),[citation needed] a prominent advocate of Henry George's single tax movement, free trade, woman's suffrage, and of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

[1] The first volume of History of Woman Suffrage, published in 1881, states, “THESE VOLUMES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE Memory of Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Martineau, Lydia Maria Child, Margaret Fuller, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Josephine S. Griffing, Martha C. Wright, Harriot K. Hunt, M.D., Mariana W. Johnson, Alice and Phebe Carey, Ann Preston, M.D., Lydia Mott, Eliza W. Farnham, Lydia F. Fowler, M.D., Paulina Wright Davis, Whose Earnest Lives and Fearless Words, in Demanding Political Rights for Women, have been, in the Preparation of these Pages, a Constant Inspiration TO The Editors”.