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	Mother Ann Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born in Manchester in 1736, Ann Lee was the illiterate daughter of a flsmith.
		Ann and her followers were frequently arrested and imprisoned for being a nuisance, but always refused to be bound over, acting only on God's instructions.
		Although Ann was often accused of being a witch, a spy and a whore, by the time of her death in 1784, she had attracted thousands of converts.
	englishculture.allinfoabout.com /features/ann-lee1.html (1141 words)

	Ann Lee
		Mother Ann Lee (February 29, 1736 - September 8, 1784) was a member of the Shakers; who, during the 1770s, emigrated to Watervliet, New York.
		Ann Lee was born on February 29, 1736, the daughter of a flsmith, in Manchester, England, and died on September 8, 1784 in Watervliet, New York, U.S..
		Also following her to America, was her brother, William Lee (1740-1784); Nancy Lee, her niece; James Whittaker (1751-1787), who had been brought up by Mother Ann and was probably related to her; John Hocknell (1723-1799), who provided the funds for the trip; his son, Richard; and James Shepherd and Mary Partington.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/an/ann_lee.html (508 words)

	The Shaker religion
		The English mystic Ann Lee (1736-1784), who was baptized and married in the Church of England, was drawn to the Shakers in 1758, spending fifteen years with the sect before leading a small group of followers to America.
		Mother Ann’s rejection of the idea that God had sanctioned sex for reproduction and her insistence on the spiritual necessity of celibacy might well have been influenced by such experiences.
		Mother Ann’s injunction, “Put your hands to work and hearts to God,” was at the center of Shaker life and worship, and their high ideals were reflected in the quality of their products.
	oh.essortment.com /theshakersreli_rggy.htm (1202 words)

	Chapter 45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ann Lee proved to be a very eloquent and forceful exponent of these pentecostal or Antinomian practices, though she herself was virtually uneducated...
		Mother Ann's charismatic personality attracted radical pietists seeking direct evidence, authority, and assurance that they were on the road to ultimate truth.
		Mother Ann promised her followers complete peace and assurance of salvation within the church and nowhere else.
	www.aspartametruth.com /automaticwriting/Chapter_45/chapter_45.html (1819 words)

	Ann Hill Carter Lee Biographical Sketch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Robert E. Lee's mother, Ann Hill Carter Lee, was the great-granddaughter of Robert Carter (1663-1732), one of America's earliest men of wealth.
		Ann was sick with a cold and saddened by the death of her father when Robert Edward Lee, named for two of her brothers, was born on January 19, 1807.
		Ann Kinloch, the eldest daughter and second eldest child spent much of her time away from home seeking medical attention for a condition, probably tuberculosis of the bone, which eventuated in the loss of her arm.
	members.aol.com /rphs44/ahcleebio.html (1040 words)

	www.theage.com.au - Faith and a way of life look shaky for Shakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lee predicted that when there were as many Shakers left as there were fingers on a child's hand, the faith would rise again.
		Ann Lee was an illiterate flsmith's daughter from the slums of Manchester when she founded the sect in England in 1747.
		Lee, whose four children died before she was 30, had come to believe that sex caused most of the world's problems.
	www.theage.com.au /text/articles/2005/11/19/1132017026150.html (1259 words)

	Lee, Ann
		Born on February 29, 1736, in Manchester, England, Ann Lee was the unlettered daughter of a flsmith who was probably named Lees.
		Mother Ann, as she came to be known, was believed to have ushered in the millennium, for the Shakers asserted that as Christ had embodied the masculine half of God's dual nature, so she embodied the female half.
		In 1780 Mother Ann was imprisoned for treason because of her pacifist doctrines and her refusal to sign an oath of allegiance.
	search.eb.com /women/articles/Lee_Ann.html (342 words)

	Ann Lee -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ann Lee was born on February 29, 1736, the daughter of a flsmith, in (additional info and facts about Manchester, England) Manchester, England, and died on September 8, 1784 in Watervliet.
		Like others in the (One who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear) Quaker tradition, she believed in and taught her followers that it is possible to attain perfect holiness.
		Mother Ann arrived on August 6, 1774 in (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/ann_lee.htm (516 words)

	Ann Lee
		When she was about twenty-two years old Ann came under the influence of James Wardley, who was at that time the chief exponent of the Camisards, or French Prophets, who had fled to England from France on account of persecution and found willing followers, especially among the Quakers.
		Ann joined the new sect that was founded in 1747, and called from their physical contortions "Shaking Quakers." She was naturally of an excitable temperament, and her experience in the performance of these peculiar religious exercises was most singular and painful.
		The new sect soon aroused the hostility of the authorities, Ann being accused by some of witchcraft and by others of secret correspondence with the British, probably because she was opposed to war.
	www.famousamericans.net /annlee (796 words)

	3Q Version from Bible.ca:Religious Movements Homepage: Shakers; The United Society of Believers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To Ann Lee came by revelation of the Spirit and through her was imparted to her followers the teaching that Christ (not Jesus) is the manifestation of Deity, "Immanuel, God with us." Many times and in different races has the Christ Spirit rested upon, entered into and manifested itself through human beings, special witnesses.
		Lee (her brother), James Whittaker, John Hocknell, Richard Hocknell (son of John), James Shepherd, Mary Partington, and Nancy Lee (a niece of Mother Ann).
		This was the state of the people in the spring of 1780, when some of them visited Mother Ann and her little family, and were soon convinced that they were in the very work for which themselves had been so earnestly praying, and for which they had been looking and waiting with such ardent expectations.
	www.threeq.com /churches/shakers.html (8923 words)

	Watervliet Shaker Historic District -- NRHP Travel Itinerary
		Originally inspired by a vision which convinced Lee she was the human incarnation of Christ's femininity, Lee drew thousands to the Shaker movement by the strength of her personality and the appeal of Shaker convictions--chastity, morality and equality for all.
		The style of communal living fashioned by Mother Ann at Watervliet became the social pattern for other Shaker settlements throughout the United States, with the Watervliet community divided into four separate "families" as a way to expand both the material output and communal spirituality of this self-reliant movement.
		Mother Ann died at Watervliet in 1784, and is buried in the local cemetery.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/ny16.htm (320 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -LEE, ANN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lee founded the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, known as the Shakers, by emigrating with eight followers from Manchester, England, to New York in 1774.
		In 1781, Ann Lee began a missionary tour of the East, acquiring new followers and further incurring thereby the loathing of "the World." Shakers were whipped, clubbed, stoned, and dragged behind horses.
		In 1784, Ann Lee died as the result of beatings.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_052200_leeann.htm (510 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Shakers; The United Society of Believers
		Fervent from a young age, Ann had a revelation during a long imprisonment that she was the Second Coming of Christ, the vital female component of God the Father-Mother (Bainbridge 1997; Gidley and Bowles 1990; Horgan 1982; Robinson 1975).
		While the rumor that she turned to celibacy and rejected even marital sex out of torment for the deaths of her four children is probably true (Bainbridge 1997; Horgan 1982; Humez 1993), Mother Ann did help develop a complex theology to support the necessity of this concept.
		Mother Ann Lee was the Second Coming of Christ, Appearing as Female (Horgan 1982; Humez 1993), embodying the loving spirit called the Holy Spirit by other denominations (Stein 1992).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/Shakers.html (2349 words)

	Mother Ann Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On February 29, 1736, Ann was born to John Lees and his wife in the poor section of Manchester, England.
		Little information is known about Ann Lee’s childhood, with a few exceptions, including her private baptism with the established Church of England, on June 1, 1742, when she was six years of age.
		She had great light and conviction concerning the sinfulness and depravity of human nature, and especially concerning the lusts of the flesh, which she often made known to her parents entreating them for that counsel and protection by which she might be kept form sin.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /htallant/courses/his338/students/mtipton/annlee.htm (319 words)

	Testimonies of Mother Ann Lee and the Elders
		After Mother Ann returned from her missionary tour in the eastern states, there was a time of much tribulation among the Believers, occasioned by the great opposition of the wicked, which brought deep sufferings upon Mother.
		But, in the hearing of a number of people, Mother Ann reproved her for her wickedness, and said, "You are a filthy whore." This greatly offended her, and she went away and complained that she had been abused, which furnished Mother's enemies, as they supposed, with sufficient cause to prosecute her.
		One Christmas evening, before the opening of the gospel in America, Mother Ann and those with her, had some conversation concerning the right day to be observed in commemoration of the birth of Christ, querying whether the twenty-fifth day of December, according to the old or new style, ought to be kept.
	www.corvalliscommunitypages.com /Americas/US/USNotOregon/shakersleft.htm (3679 words)

	Shakers - Mother Ann Lee
		Mother Ann Lee was a woman of strong constitution, rather exceeding the ordinary size of woman; rather thick, but very straight and well proportioned in form; of light complexion, and blue eyes; her hair of a light chestnut brown.
		Though Mother's words were generally few, they were always adapted to the occasion; and it did not appear that she ever spoke in vain.
		Mother's industry, prudence and economy, were equal to her zeal and charity; so that, in all things, she was a pattern of godliness, and showed herself to be a mother indeed, in every good word and work.
	www.shakerworkshops.com /MotherAnn.htm (1941 words)

	Mother Ann Lee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ann Lee, or "Mother Ann" as she became known to her followers, was born on February 29, 1736 in Manchester, England, the daughter of a flsmith.
		These hymns are wordless, and Mother Ann claimed to be repeating songs which she heard in her visions.
		There are many books on Mother Ann Lee and the Shaker movement, in fact the New York Public Library maintains a valuable research guide specifically devoted to the Shaker movement.
	www3.sympatico.ca /dmckilli/whc/mal (292 words)

	Official creed of the Shakers: Compendium (1859) Mother Ann Lee
		Ann Lee confessed her sins to Jane and James Wardley; and she continually taught and enjoined it as the first act of a repentant soul, and as being absolutely essential to the reception of the power to forsake sin.
		Mother Ann, and the elders with her, often revealed the most secret sins, that were purposely kept back by such as were opening their minds before them.
		As she advanced in years she was strongly impressed with a sense of the deep depravity of human nature, and of the odiousness of sin, especially the impure and indecent nature of sexual coition for mere gratification.
	www.bible.ca /cr-shakers.htm (13901 words)

	Harvard Shaker Historic District -- NRHP Travel Itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Shaker Settlement at Harvard, founded in 1781-1782, was one of close to 20 religious communities established in the eastern states by the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, or the Shakers.
		The society was made up of followers of Ann Lee, known as Mother Ann, thought to be the female, second incarnation of Christ.
		Ann Lee advocated celibacy, rigid order, efficiency and equity, along with exuberant celebration.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/ma44.htm (290 words)

	MSN Encarta - Ann Lee
		Lee, Ann (1736-1784), English mystic, who brought the Shaker sect to America.
		Born in Manchester and uneducated, she worked in a cotton factory and as a cook.
		Becoming convinced through visions that Christ's second coming had been fulfilled in her, she assumed leadership of the Shakers, who called her Mother Ann or Ann the Word.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567510/Lee_Ann.html (124 words)

	Who Was Robert E. Lee? -- Johnson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ann Lee named her son "Robert Edward" after two of her brothers.
		In 1838, with the rank of Captain, Lee fought in the War with Mexico and was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec.
		Lee was called Marse Robert, Uncle Robert and Marble Man. He was loved by the people of the South, but the Northern folks also adopted him.
	www.americasvoices.org /archives2004/JohnsonC/JohnsonC_011904.htm (1085 words)

	When True Simplicity Is Gained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She was by then called “Mother Ann,” and was charismatic, prophetic, and received visions and messages from G-d.
		Mother Ann was one of the first advocates of equal rights for women in the United States, and all of the Shaker Sisters shared work and profits equally with the men of the sect.
		Mother Ann said, as modern psychology does, confession is good for the soul.
	www.westsideuu.org /030504.htm (1911 words)

	Ann Lee, Mother Biography / Biography of Ann Lee, Mother Biography
		Arriving in the American colonies with a handful of followers, Mother Ann Lee (1736-1784) became founder and leading spirit of the radical religious sect called the United Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, better known as the Shakers.
		A spiritual trailblazer, she led the advance guard of a new era of religious liberty and toleration which would eventually characterize the young nation with which she cast her lot.
		A person of great personal charisma, Ann Lee was also a true religious and social innovator.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-ann-lee-mother (231 words)

	NYPL, Shakers and Shakerism Research Guide
		This is an historical analysis of the Shakers with a particular emphasis, according to the author, on "the Society within its own boundaries, as it was experienced by its members." This study is a valuable work for those wishing to understand the inner social and religious dimensions of Shakerism.
		Campion, Nardi R. Ann the Word: The Life of Mother Ann Lee, Founder of the Shakers.
		Testimonies Concerning the Character and Ministry of Mother Ann Lee and the First Witnesses of the Gospel of Christ's Second Appearing.
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/grd/resguides/shaker/historical.html (252 words)

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		Mother Ann Lee and The Evolution of Shaker Beliefs and Theology
		Priscilla Brewer, “The Shakers of Mother Ann Lee,” in Pitzer, America’s Communal Utopias, 37-56.
		How did Mother Ann Lee and the Shakers interpret the Scriptural justification of celibacy, and how did that interpretation, in its differences from that of Jacob Bohme, shape both the practice of celibacy and its implications for the community?
	academic.bowdoin.edu /courses/f04/hist012/readingguide/shaker1.shtml (305 words)

	Schenectady County Historical Society Newsletter
		Ann Lee was born in Manchester, England in 1735.
		They were known at "Shaking Quakers" because of their energetic whirling dancing, and Ann Lee was their "mother." Ann and her small group of followers, which included her father, husband and brother, were very demonstrative in proclaiming their beliefs to others.
		Mother Ann Lee and her small group of followers moved from England to the colony of New York in 1774.
	www.schist.org /mayj01.html (6031 words)

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