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Shakers believed that Jesus, born of a woman, the son of a Jewish carpenter, was the male manifestation of Christ and the first Christian Church; and that Mother Ann, daughter of an English blacksmith, was the female manifestation of Christ and the second Christian Church (which the Shakers believed themselves to be).
The Shakers are a sect of Christianity which practices celibacy, communal living, confession of sin, egalitarianism, and pacifism. After starting in England, it is thought that these communities spread into the cotton towns of North West England, with the football team of Bury taking on the Shaker name to acknowledge the Shaker community of Bury.
Ann Lee (29 February 1736 – 8 September 1784), commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding leader of the Shakers, later changed to United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing following her death.
One man's attempt to build a Shaker community in Windsor stretched over 400 acres of land and included several successful businesses.
Spiritual Baptists in St Vincent are locally called the shakers due to their practice of invoking the Holy Spirit during their praise and worship. Vincentian Baptists are also known colloquially as 'Converted', speaking to them being converted to Christianity during slavery.
The Shaker Order of Christmas. Oxford University Press. LCCN 54012701. Andrews, Edward (1961). The Hancock Shakers: The Shaker Community at Hancock, Massachusetts, 1780–1960. Shaker Community. LCCN 85114831. Andrews, Edward Deming; Andrews, Faith (1966). Religion in Wood: A Book of Shaker Furniture. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253173607.
Lucy Wright was born February 5, 1760, the daughter of John and Mary (Robbins) Wright [sic, of Josiah and Elizabeth (Robbins) Wright] of Pontoosuck plantation (later Pittsfield, Massachusetts), in the Housatonic River valley of the Berkshire hills near the New York border. [3]
Dyer, Mary M., A brief statement of the sufferings of Mary Dyer occasioned by the society called Shakers, 1818, William S. Spear, Boston, 35 pp.; Dyer, Mary M., A portraiture of Shakerism, exhibiting a general view of their character and conduct, from the first appearance of Ann Lee in New-England, down to the present time, Printed for the Author [Concord, N.H.], Jun. 1823 (“1822”), 446 pp