In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ‘Mother Ann’ Lee
In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of ‘Mother Ann’ Lee. The American communities they founded were based on ideals of pacifism, celibacy and gender equality. The texts included in this edition come from first-hand accounts of life in the Shaker communities during the nineteenth century.
Calvin Green, Biographic Memoir MS (1861), continued; Rhoda Blake, A
Sketch of the Life and Experience of Rhoda Blake (1864); Freegift Wells,
Watervliet, New York (1865); Ruth Scott Testimony, as related by Freegift
Wells, Watervliet, New York (1865), excerpt; Jane E. S. Blanchard, Enfield,
New Hampshire (1868); Marie Wheeler, A Biographical Sketch (c. 1870);
Autobiographical Letter of Sarah Bates to Ministry, New Lebanon, New York
(1870); Cassandana Brewster, Book of Remembrance, Hancock, Massachusetts
(1870); Hannah Bronson Obituary, Canterbury, New Hampshire (1870); Sarah
Bates, A Few Words, of My Belief in a Christian Life, or Shakerism, New
Lebanon, New York (1871); Eliza Sharp, Experience of a Veteran Sister, New
Lebanon, New York (1879); Giles Bushnell Avery, Autobiography [ written in
1880] (1891); Mary Antoinette Doolittle, Autobiography (1880); Jane D.
Knight, Brief Narrative of Events Touching Various Reforms (1880); Elmira
Allard, Autobiography, Enfield, New Hampshire (1885); George M. Wickersham,
How I Came to be a Shaker (1891); [ Julia Johnson], Reminiscences of Shaker
Life, Tyringham and Hancock, Massachusetts (1899); Julia Johnson, Among the
Shakers (c. 1889); Julia Johnson, Tyringham, Mass. (1899); Mary Hazard,
Autobiography, Shaker Manifesto (1899); Abraham Perkins, Autobiography,
Enfield, New Hampshire (1899); Daniel Fraser, Witness of Daniel Fraser
([ 1901]); Henry Clay Blinn, Autobiographical Notes, In Memoriam Elder Henry
C. Blinn 18241902 (1905); Alonzo Hollister, Reminiscences by a Soldier of
the Cross (1907); Mary L. Wilson, Notes about Sarah F. Wilson, Canterbury,
New Hampshire (1935)
