{Shaker Cycles}[13th March 1990]

[Redbook7:85][19900313:1528]{Shaker Cycles}[13th March 1990]

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*64-year cycles: The Shakers apparently started in America in 1774,** two years short of the G~-year of 1776. Immediately following the next G~-year of 1840, they (like many other sects) underwent a strong religious revival, and [the sect] reached its [sic] zenith in numbers. By the time of the C-year, 1920, following the subsequent G~-year (1888), the Shakers [sic] communities were fast closing.

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1874: Advertising for members, re comfort as well as spiritual values.

By late 1970s, only a dozen (female) survivors.

****Ann Lee, their founder in America [(][who] arrived [in] 1774 with 8 disciples[)], was converted in 1758 (A~-year: 1760), but suffered persecution and imprisonment in England. But in 1776 (G~-year) there was a general revival in their district of America, and the Shakers ‘took off’.

*(C[hannel] 4 [TV], 2pm)

**[Having been founded in North-west England c1747]

***[A blank circle diagram in the ms here – no letters or numbers, only the cardinal and diagonal points – appears to have been drawn but not used and is not included in the ts.]

****E[nyclopaedia] B[ritannica] X:690

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