Herman Isacks op den Graeff
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Herman Isacks op den Graeff, also Herman op den Graeff, Opdengraef, Opdengraff as well as Op den Gräff was one of the so-called Original 13, the first closed group of German emigrants to North America and an original founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was an outspoken anti slavery man and abolitionist.
William Penn talks to the (later) founders of Germantown, Pennsylvania
Monument in Vernon Park, Philadelphia, in memory of Francis Daniel Pastorius and the first settlers.
Inscription plaque with the names of the Op den Graeff brothers
George Keith (missionary)
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George Keith was a Scottish religious leader, a Presbyterian turned Quaker turned Anglican. He was born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to a Presbyterian family and received an M.A. from the University of Aberdeen. Keith joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the 1660s, accompanying George Fox, William Penn, and Robert Barclay on a mission to the Netherlands and Germany in 1677.
Edburton, St Andrews Church