Keith, George
Keith, George( c.1638–1716),Scottish clergyman, came to America (1684) and became headmaster of the William Penn Charter School (1689). At first he agreed with the Quakers, but his differences with them on such points as the Inner Light, and his contentious manner, caused him to be denounced by Penn (1692). Keith returned the attack in The Deism of William Penn and His Brethren (1699), and formed a strong separatist party of Christian Quakers (Keithians). His Exhortation and Caution to Friends (1693) is said to be the first antislavery statement printed in the colonies. In 1700 he joined the Anglican Church, into which he took his followers, traveling widely throughout the colonies in 1702–4. Of this later period he left a record in A Journal of Travels from New-Hampshire to Caratuck (1706).
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