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GEORGE KEITH (c. 1639-1716)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 716 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:KEITH (c. 1639-1716)  , See also:British divine, was See also:born at See also:Aberdeen about 1639 and was educated for the Presbyterian See also:ministry at -Marischal See also:College in his native See also:city . In 1662 he became a Quaker and worked with See also:Robert See also:Barclay (q.v.) . After being imprisoned for See also:preaching in 1676 he went to See also:Holland and See also:Germany on an evangelistic tour with See also:George See also:Fox and See also:William See also:Penn . Two further terms of imprisonment in See also:England induced him (1684) to emigrate to See also:America, where he was surveyor-See also:general in See also:East New See also:Jersey and then a schoolmaster at See also:Philadelphia . He travelled in New England defending Quakerism against the attacks of Increase and See also:Cotton See also:Mather, but after a See also:time See also:fell out with his own folk on the subject of the See also:atonement, accused them of deistic views, and started a community of his own called " See also:Christian See also:Quakers " or " Keithians." He endeavoured to advance his views in See also:London, but the Yearly See also:Meeting of 1694 disowned him, and See also:lie established a society at See also:Turner's See also:Hall in Philpot See also:Lane, where he so far departed from Quaker usage as to administer the two sacraments . In 1700 he conformed to the See also:Anglican See also:Church, and from 1702 to 1704 was an See also:agent of the Society for the See also:Propagation of the See also:Gospel in America . He died on the 27th of See also:March 1716 at Edburton in See also:Sussex, of which See also:parish he was See also:rector . Among his writings were The See also:Deism of William Penn and his Brethren (1699); The See also:Standard of the Quakers examined; or, an See also:Answer to the See also:Apology of Robert Barclay (1702);' A See also:Journal of Travels (1706) .

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