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The Square House where Ann Lee stayed in Harvard, now a private home in Shaker Village. This postcard has the wrong date for the Square House, which was actually built for Shadrach Ireland around 1769, before Ann Lee came to Harvard. A postcard from the HHS archives.
An early photograph of the Square House.
Ann Lee was born in England on February 29, 1736. She was an illiterate Englishwoman who left a disappointing arranged marriage—none of her four children survived childhood—to join and eventually lead a small and persecuted religious sect. Their official name was the United Society of Believers, but they became known as the Shakers for their moving, dancing, and shaking form of worship.
In 1774 Ann Lee and eight of her followers emigrated from England to New York during the time American revolutionaries were fighting to form a nation that would honor religious freedom. They set up Anne Lee Greene Biography, Celebrity Facts and Awards - TV Guide.