United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing
By 1774, Ann Lee and some eight of her followers had emigrated to America, settling in New York "When confronted about a female’s right to preach, she responded that “all the children, both male and female, must be subject to their parents; and the woman, being second, must be subject to her husband, who is the first; but when the man is gone, the right of government belongs to the woman:
So is the family of Christ.” the group reached maximum size of about 6,000 full members in 1840, Shakers codified their rules for the first time as the Millennial Laws of 1821.