Ann Lee biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Ann Lee

Author Name:

Ann Lee

Born As:

Ann Lee

Other Names:

Mother Ann Lee

Born:

29 Feb 1736

Died:

8 Sep 1784




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Theologian and Shaker                          
                          
                          
The method of worship she and others followed was one of ecstatic dancing or "shaking", which dubbed them as the Shaking Quakers.                          
Under her leadership, beginning in 1777, the rejection of divorce, which caused her to be severely disliked at that point in time. She joined the Wardleys, an English sect founded by Jane and preacher James Wardley, in 1758.

During the 1770s she emigrated from England to Watervliet, New York to avoid persecution.