Like her predecessors, the Wardleys, she taught that the shaking and trembling were caused by sin being purged from the body by the power of the Holy Spirit, purifying the worshiper.īeginning during her youth, Ann Lee was uncomfortable with sexuality, especially her own. She believed and taught her followers that it is possible to attain perfect holiness by giving up sexual relations. In 1758, she joined an English sect founded by Jane Wardley and her husband, preacher James Wardley this was the precursor to the Shaker sect. When Ann was young, she worked in a cotton factory, then as a cutter of hatter's fur, and later as a cook in a Manchester infirmary. As often happened in those days, the mother's name was not even recorded. Little is known about her mother other than that she was a very religious woman. It is probable that Ann Lee's original surname was Lees, but somewhere through time it changed to Lee. Ann Lee's father, John Lees, was a blacksmith during the day and a tailor at night. Her parents were members of a distinct branch of the Society of Friends and too poor to afford their children even the rudiments of education. Manchester at Ann Lee's time (1746) panoramaĪnn Lee was born in Manchester, England, and was baptized privately at Manchester Collegiate Church (now Manchester Cathedral) on 1 June 1742, at the age of 6.
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