Other members Lucy Wright (February 5, 1760 – 1821) was the leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, also known as the Shakers, from 1796 until 1821.
Near the end of the revival, they heard a preacher expound on Romans 8:8 (“Those who are in the flesh cannot please God”), which may have set the stage for their conversion to a new religion.
By mid-1780, Elizur Goodrich was drawn to the preachings of the Shaker leader, Mother Ann Lee, despite the new religion's requirements of celibacy and confession of sins.
[6] As soon as Wright shifted her commitment from her husband to her new religion, Mother Ann Lee found it expedient to separate the young couple.
Wright moved to the Shaker community at Watervliet, New York, where Ann Lee mentored the young woman and she became a leader among her peers.
Together, Meacham and Wright reshaped their religious society to include gender-balanced government, and gathering Believers into communal villages.
After his death, Wright was the acknowledged leader of the Shaker ministry (a team of two elders and two eldresses who governed the society).
[11] Under Wright's administration, Shakers standardized and increased book and tract publishing for the widely-scattered religious society.