In 1848 in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, a group of five women started a movement for women's rights that would transform American society. On July 9, 1848, in the Hunt House, a social affair focused on protest and discussion brought Jane Hunt, Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright, Mary Ann M'Clintock, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton together to conceive and plan the First Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls. Connected by family, friendship, anti-slavery activities, religion, and shared experiences confronting rioting mobs, they summoned reformers from across the Northeast to the Wesleyan Chapel, where for two days as many as 300 women and men considered the role of women in a democratic society and emerged with the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that shaped the reform movement for decades and continues to resonate today. Jane Hunt's role in founding the movement did not arise from a stark existence; her husband, one of the wealthiest men in Seneca County, owned an eleven-room home on a large farm, with three carriages and a sleigh in the carriage house, and the movement she helped found embraced women from all classes.