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On February 29 Ann Lee is born in Manchester, England.
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Ann Lee joins the sect known as the Shaking Quakers named because they shake when performing a religious dance.
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Lee marries. Later, all four of her children die
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Lee is sent to prison by the English government during a period of persecution of religious minorities.
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Unwelcome in England, Lee goes to America with her husband and followers. She settles in Watervliet, near Albany, New York.
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During the Revolutionary War Lee refuses to sign an oath of allegiance.
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Lee dies in watervliet, New York.
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The first Shaker building is built in Harvard, Massachusetts.
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The Shakers reach their zenith with about 6,000 members living in 19 communal villages. Many other visionary and utopian communities begin to flourish during this period of American history as well such as the Oneida Perfectionists, and the Amana Society
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The church begins a campaign to find new converts as their membership falls. The economic boom in the North proves tempting to many male members, who then leave their communities.
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shaker communities begin to fall, one by one
