LEE, ANN

(1736-84), English vistonary and founder of the American Society ond vei as eae the dau ALG oreunied One air religious meetings in Manchester in on 1770, the and charge this led of to Sabbath her imprisonment breaking. During her confinement ‘in prison, she | claimed to have had visions o ris and a disclosure regarding His secong coming, in addition to other alee? revelations which were afterward aa corp orated in the Shaler doctrine. He soon had many followers, by whom ane was styled ‘Mother Ann.’ In 17 is gue emigrated to America and founde (3) first American Shaker poe eee society was organized on a conraae c of|basis having as its pe tay anv pou ciples ‘virginal purity, confe ion 0 a Christian communism and separa oi from the world.’ Since 1787 the central home of the organization hag been Mt.,