The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-02-22
81. Peters Church,
Freehold and It's ReCiOrs
BIZ MAxcY APpLEeATR. sR.
REV. GEORGE KEITH, FOUNDER OF
FREEHOLD
ToPANRMUs.
KRITH's SURVEY.


In the History Of Princeton, John
+. Hagaman says. The Province
separating the Province of East Jersey
from the Province of West Jersey,
passed along so near it's southwest
boundary, as to leave it for a long
time in doubt whether the place be-
longed to the Eastern or Western
Province Indeed. it lay between the
two lines Of the surveyors, Keith and
Lawrence line The Keith line, which
we understand now to be recogniz
ed as the true Province line, is the
boundary line of the township Of Prince
ton on the west, so that while Prince
ton has been so nearly in the line as to
be claimed by both sections, it is all
in East Jersey, assuming the Keith
line to be the true one.'
Mr.. Hagaman in his history also
says,
'sIn the Library of the New Jersey
Historical Society there is map of the
rivers Milestone, Raritan, as made
by John Reid, a Scotchman, in 1885,
for the Proprietors.
+ GEokGE KRITH'S REPLY IN FAVOR
OF woMEN PREACHERS.
There is an excerpt in Southey's
Common Place Book of quotation
of George Keith's treatise on tQuak-
erism no Popereyp which we here
reproduce as it is in Keith's best style
of language when Quaker preacher
Speaking about women preachers,
he saws, But have there been wom-.
en- among the Presbyterians, who have
spoke in the presence of many both
men and women, of their experience
OF the things Of God? / suppose Z M.
may have heard OF Margaret Mich
elson, who spoke to the admiration Of
many hearers in Edinburgh as con-
corning her experience, in the time Of
Henry Rogue, PREACHER there, who is
said to have come and heard her him
self and 20 have given her this testi-
mony [being desired to speak HIMSELF
that he was to be silent when his Mas
ter was silent (meaning Christ IN
. til at Presbyterian woman There is
a relation Of her speeches going about
from hand to hand among professors
at this day and myself have heard
Presbyterian woman speak In meet
ing OF Presbyterians. which were q
church or convention OF men and WON
en-. Yea, hath not T. M. in such
meetings and consequently in as
se,nblies of churches invited some
woman to speak and pray, and de-
slared ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS he did it mere
ly in his ordinary customary way OF
compliInenting that is best known to
HIMSELF that he was edited therebyg
and of some of those women former
| ly 10 that respect so much applauded
by Il. M, be of the those that now open
their mouths in the Quakers' meetings.
how comes it now to be Popish and
heretical, more then in the days of old
when T. III. did use to frequent the
chamber conventicles. unless that he
now may hath forgotten these, be-
cause fear hath made them out Of
fashion with him. F"
Above is about the best style of
Keith's writings before he came TO
America as a Quaker preacher, and
when he was disputing with the Col
Iege professors at Aberdeen University
about the Quaker doctrines.
The Friends were first called Quakers
by Justice Bennett OF Derby In 1850,
because George Fox babe the people
tremble at the word of the Lord. The
first use of the epithet in the record Of
parliament was made in the journal Of
the House of Commons for 1854.
Whenever Fox went appeared the cry
abroad THE man in leather breeches
is come.
This was the sample of the people
whose sufferings symbolized the same
sentiment in Monmouth County; the
very first settlers having been made
up of these sturdy, stern, religious
sect, whose impress crystallized and
dominated the County and whoselater
interinarriages with the Dutch produc-
ed a people whose descendants now
are persons of prominence wherever
they have gone.
The Robinson's, Leddru's Wrights.
Davis. Stevenson's Southwicks, Nor
tons, Copeland's, Lawrence, Wenlock,
Hutchinion.s. Norton's Taylor's
Lincoln, Apologize and other families
suffered severely in New England and
it is no wonder they sought this hos
pitable place in the wilderness in Free
hold township, where with other
Friends, who had come direct from
England here, made up a Colony
where they were never subjected to-
persecution and were allowed to wor-
ship according to the dictates OF their
conscience without any fear OF judic-
ial or church action or degradation
The Indians especially OF this
neighborhood were their firm friends
and allies. as the Friends never
cheated them aud treaten them hui
namely
And an Indian Chief isssaid to
have remarked, after his tribe had
given hospitalilyto the Quakers. what
Godhave these English, who deal so with
one another about their God. The
Indians naturally pitied the men
who were victims Of . system which al
SO encroached upon themselves Apart
from that they always appear to have
found some temper in the Quaker
which enlisted their native sense Of