Mary Upton Ferrin: Earliest Massachusetts Pioneer in Woman Suffrage by S. M. Smoller
My Hero | Early Days | Memorial of the Female Signers |  Address to the Judiciary Committee | Charitable Benevolent Association | A Women's Defence | Women's Rights | Later Life & Obituary Sketches |  There's A Good Time Coming Girls |

Works Cited.

Danvers Birth and Death Records. Vol. 2. Danvers, Mass.: n.p., n.d. Reveals that at birth, Upton 

     Ferrin was called "Polly". 

Ferrin, Mary Upton. House Memorial 57. Ms. Massachusetts State House Archives, Boston, Mass. A copy 

     of the memorial was located by Rep. Sally P. Kerans. 

- - -. A Woman's Defence, A Reply to Horace Greeley's Lecture. Peabody, Mass.: Charles D. Howard,

     1860. A copy of Upton Ferrin's pamphlet is housed at the Peabody Historical Society. 

Holbrook, Charles, Rev. "First Baptist Church of Danvers." Historical Collections of the Danvers

     Historical Society Vol. 12 (1924): 8. Upton Ferrin's parents, Jesse and Eliza, both attended 

     this church. The story regarding the votes of women within the church is revealed in this 

     article. 

King Family Manuscripts. Ms. Danvers Archives. Peabody Institute Library, Danvers, Mass. Includes

     provisions of the wills of Phebe Upton King and Mary King Upton. 

Ladies Unitarian Society Membership Roster. Ms. Peabody Historical Society, Peabody, Mass. The time 

     after 1800 was a time of great religious exploration. The number of meeting houses in town grew 

     from one to five. The Ladies Unitarian Society organized social outings, including a blueberry 

     picking trip to the area of Daniel King's estate off of what is today Crystal Lake. 

Massey, D. A., Worshipful Brother. History of Freemasonry in Danvers, 1778-1896. Peabody, Mass:

     Press of C. H. Shepherd, 1896. 214. Includes biographical sketch of Eben Upton.

National Woman's Suffrage Association. National Citizen and Ballot Box [Toledo, Ohio] Apr. 1878, No.

     1 ed.: 1. Includes articles on the petition drives in favor of establishing a 16th amendment 

     and records of volunteers who collected signatures. The newspaper was edited by Matilda Joslyn 

     Gage who corresponded with Mary Upton Ferrin for many years. Upton Ferrin's obituary authored 

     by Gage is the only record of Upton Ferrin's incarceration in an insane asylum. 

Osborne, Theodore Moody. The History of Essex County, Chapter LXV. Peabody, Mass.: n.p., n.d. 1044. 

     Includes the letter from the Charitable Benevolent Society signed by Eliza Sutton and Mary 

     Ferrin. 

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. The History of Woman Suffrage.

      Vol. 1. N.p., 1881. 208-315. In addition to documenting Upton Ferrin's initial efforts to 

     change Massachusetts law, this book contains a copy of "Mrs. Ferrin's Address to the Judiciary 

     Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1850" and "Petitions of 1853". 

Sterling, Dorothy. Ahead of Her Time, Abbey Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery. New York: W. W.

     Norton & Company, 1991. 

Upton, William Henry. Upton Family Records. Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, n.d. 

Vinton, John Adams. The Upton Memorial. Bath, Me., 1874. 170. Includes details of the wills of Eben 

     Upton and Mary King. 

Warbasse, Elizabeth B. "Mary Upton Ferrin." Notable American Women 1607 - 1950 A Biographical

     Dictionary. Ed. Edward T. James. Fourth ed. Vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of

     Harvard University Press, 1971. 611-612.