Mother Ann Lee was born in Manchester, England on February 29, 1736. She joined "The Shaking Quakers," a religious sect, in 1758. Ann Lee preached to the public and led the Shaker church at a time when few women did either. In 1770 she revealed her vision of the second coming of Christ. Around that time she was given the nickname " Mother Ann" and became the sects leader. She founded the first U.S. settlement of Quakers, Watervliet, New York in 1774. She died in New York on September 8, 1784.
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