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Samuel West: New York
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After graduation, West worked as a schoolmaster in Falmouth Massachusetts. In 1757 he began preaching at Tisbury, Massachusetts (on Martha's Vineyard). When that church offered him permanent settlement he rejected the offer, because he felt the salary was not enough to live on. Because the town refused to increase it, he withdrew. In 1759 he went to preach at the First Church in Plymouth, the church of the Pilgrim Fathers. In 1760 he was called to what became the First Congregational Society in Dartmouth (later New Bedford). He was ordained in 1761.
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As a choral singer West participated in the May 2006 Choir of London tour to Jerusalem and the West Bank, where he ... gave poetry readings as part of the concert programme. In April 2007 he again joined the Choir of London in their tour of Palestine, directing The Magic Flute. A former member of the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Alliance, Sam West has been politically active for many years and is a strong critic of Tony Blair's New Labour government.
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In 1808 Asa West moved with his family to Madison County, New York, casting in his lot among its pioneer settlers. He purchased a tract of timber land, upon which he built a log house that remained the home of the family for a number of years. He was a clothier by trade and a man of natural mechanical ability. In 1815 his health failed and after an illness of six years' duration he died in January, 1821. His widow and her children remained residents of Madison County, New York, for a number of years. In 1826 they moved to Erie County, New York, where Mrs. West passed away December 2, 1828, at the age of 48 years.
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After the battle of Bunker Hill, West volunteered as a chaplain. During his several months service he helped decipher a treasonous letter from a military physician, Dr. Benjamin Church, to a British admiral in Newport. This letter revealed American casualties, troop strength, and shipments of gun powder. Legend has it that when the British Army invaded Dartmouth, they burned down West's parsonage in retaliation.
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