Samuel West (of New Bedford)

1730-1807






Mural in the Massachusetts State House



This influential minister was a member of the committee that framed the Constitution of Massachusetts, and preached before the Massachusetts Council and House of Representatives in Boston, 1776, “The Right to Rebel Against Governors.”


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