Ann Lee
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Ann Lee, born 27 February 1736 – September 8, 1784), also known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding member of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearance, or the Shakers. Ann Lee and a select group of her followers immigrated from England to New York after nearly two decades of participation in a faith movement that morphed into the Shakers in 1774.
They gathered at Niskayuna, New York, after several years, renting property from the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, Albany County, New York, (the town now called Colonie).
They worshiped by ecstatic dancing or "shaking," resulting in them being dubbed the Shakers.
Ann Lee preached to the public and led the Shaker Church at a time when few women were religious leaders.
Early history
Ann Lee was born in Manchester, England, and was baptized privately at Manchester Collegiate Church (now Manchester Cathedral) on June 1, 1742 at the age of 6. Her parents were members of a particular branch of the Society of Friends, but they were too poor to afford their children even the basics of education. John Lees, Ann Lees' father, was a blacksmith during the day and a tailor at night. Ann Lee's initial surname is likely to have been Lees, but it has since changed to Lee. Other than that she was a religious woman, little is known about her mother other than that she was a religious woman. The mother's name was not even known in those days, as it was so often. Ann was a child in a cotton factory, then as a hatter's fur cutter, and then as a cook in a Manchester infirmary.
Jane Wardley and her partner, preacher James Wardley, formed an English sect in 1758, which was the precursor to the Shaker sect. She believed and told her followers that giving up sexual relations will bring perfect holiness. The trembling and shaking were attributed to sin being cleansed from the body by the Holy Spirit's power, according to her predecessors, the Wardleys.
Ann Lee was uneasy with sexuality, particularly her own. Her repulsion towards sexual activity persisted, and it showed itself in her repeated attempts to prevent marriage. Abraham Stanley (or Abraham Standarin) was eventually coerced to marry her father. They were married at Manchester Collegiate Church on January 5th, 1761. She became pregnant four times, but the majority of her children died in infancy. Ann Lee's traumatic pregnancies and the loss of four children were two of her four children's traumatic experiences that contributed to her mother's avoidance of sexual relationships. Lee grew radical religious convictions, as well as the importance of striving perfection in every facet of life. She differed from the Quakers, who, although they endorsed gender equality, did not believe in forbiding sexuality within marriage.