Ann Lees

สถานที่: Manchester

เกิด: 1736

ความตาย: 1784

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Ann Lee, also known as Ann Lees, was a religious leader born in Manchester, England in 1736. She was the primary founder of American Shakerism, a movement that produced the longest-lived communal religious organization in the United States. Lee arrived in the American colonies with a handful of followers and became the founder and leading spirit of the radical religious sect called the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly known as the Shakers. She established a community in Harvard in 1781, the second oldest Shaker settlement in the United States. Lee was an illiterate woman who traveled throughout New England converting people to the Shaker faith and occasionally arousing the suspicions and sometimes violence of others. She died in Watervliet, New York in 1784.