Shakers (Corporate Name)

Richards, D. In time & eternity, 1986: t.p. (United Society of Shakers)

Stein, S. J. The Shaker experience in America, 1992: CIP t.p. (United Society of Believers)

NUCMC data from United Society of Shakers, Shaker Library for Babbitt, C.W. Diary, 1862-1863 (Shakers; United Society of Shakers)

Encycl. Amer. rel., c1993 (United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing; Sabbathday Lake, Me.; popularly called the Shakers; developed ca. 1830; in middle-late 19th c., there were 19 communities from Maine to Kentucky with over 6,000 members; currently ca. 10 members in Maine and Canterbury, N.H.)

Phone call to A. Gilbert, Librarian, Shaker Library, 7-11-94 (heading Shakers is acceptable; formal name is United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing; other variants: Believers of Chosen Lane; Shaker Society; Church of Christ's Second Appearing; United Society; and Order of Young Believers in the United Society; community at Sabbathday Lake (formerly New Gloucester); mailing address is Poland Spring)

NUCMC data from Maine Historical Society for Its Account book, 1800-1801 (Shakers, United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, of Sabbathday Lake Community, Poland, Me.)

NUCMC data from Shaker Library for United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Inc. Records, 1972-2001 (United Society of Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Inc.; non-profit education corporation which operates the Shaker Museum, Shaker Library, and Herb Depot.; created 1972 as outreach of the Shaker Society)

Day-Star (Cincinnati, Ohio), 1847 (United Society of True Believers)

Dunlavy, J. The manifesto, or A declaration of the doctrines and practice of the Church of Christ, 1812.