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The Communistic Societies of the United States: The Shake...

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The "Millennial Church, or United Society of Believers, commonly called Shakers," was formally organized at New Lebanon, a village in Columbia County, New York, in September, 1787, three years after the death of Ann Lee, whose followers they profess themselves, and whom they revere as the second appearance of Christ upon this earth, holding that Christ appeared first in the body of Jesus. Ann Lee, according to the account of her accepted among and published by the Shakers, was an English woman…

The Communistic Societies of the United States: The Shake...

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