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Eeatinge was an active Mason, being master of
Baltimore Lodge, no. 22³⁷. He was said to be active
and zealous, but perhaps somewhat perverse and head-
strong.³⁸ He was also captain of the Hibernian Gren-
adiers of the Sixth Regiment of Maryland Militia.³⁹

He was still printing in Baltimore about 1807 or
1808; the pamphlet, Authentic Appearance of a Ghost
in Queen Anne¹s County. Maryland, printed by George
Keatinge in Baltimore and reprinted in New York in
1808, testifies to that. He disappears from the Ealti-
more Directory after 1808. Schultz states that he
died in Frederick about 1811,⁴⁰ but no will or inven-
tory of his can be found in the records of Frederick
County.

His brother, Henry Sample Keatinge, who main-
tained a separate book store in Baltimore, was also
instrumental in having a number of books published.
Probably he was not a printer in the. usual sense of
the term, until 1801 or 1802. He was to some degree
at least, a music printer, and may have done work in
that line before 1800; he will be mentioned below under
that heading.

George Keatinge's wife, Elizabeth, died in Balti-

37 Ibid. v. 1, p. 238.

38 Ibid. v. 2, p. 309.

39 Maryland journal. July 2, 1796.

40 Schultz, E.T. op. cit. v. 2, p. 309.