Ann Lee (29 February 1736 – 8 September 1784), commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding leader of the Shakers, later changed to United Society...

abandoned Ann Lee shortly thereafter and remarried. The remaining Shakers settled in Watervliet, New York, in 1776. Mother Ann's hope for the Shakers in America...

National Historic Landmark in 1974. The Shakers were originally located in England in 1747, in the home of Mother Ann Lee. They developed from the religious...

The chronology of Shakers is a list of important events pertaining to the history of the Shakers, a denomination of Christianity. Millenarians who believe...

United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly known as Shakers, a religious sect that had guiding principles of simplicity, utility and...

white congregation Adoniram Judson, early Baptist missionary. Ann Lee, Shakers Jarena Lee, Methodist, a female AME circuit rider Robert Matthews, cult...

Simple Gifts, and the spiritual healing of the sick by the Shakers. When the Alfred Shakers products and goods were no longer competitive with mass-produced...

these churches investigated the Shakers and began converting. Invigorated by this influx of new converts, the Shakers expanded through missionary trips...

power struggle, became the next leader of the Shakers. Stephen J. Paterwic. Historical Dictionary of the Shakers. Scarecrow Press; 11 August 2008. ISBN 978-0-8108-6255-5...

"Paddy on the Railway." The Shakers are a religious sect founded in 18th-century England upon the teachings of Ann Lee. Shakers today are most known for...