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| | Samuel West |
 | | WEST, Samuel, clergyman, born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 3 March, 1730: died in Tiverton, Rhode Island, 24 September, 1807. |
 | | His father, Sackville West a physician, removed soon after his son's birth to Barn-stable, Massachusetts, where the boy labored on a farm and prepared himself for college. |
 | | He was graduated at Harvard in 1754, entered the ministry, was settled over the congregation in New Bedford in 1761, and taught the doctrine that afterward became known as Unitarian. |
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