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William West's house in Scituate, Rhode Island, built in 1775. West was born in North Kingstown, Colony of Rhode Island in about 1733 to Alice Sweet and John West, a great-grandson of Pilgrim, George Soule. [2] West's father was a large landowner and his mother sold "jonnycakes" during the American Revolution. [3]
William West was a farmer, anti-federalist leader, revolutionary war general, and judge from Scituate, Rhode Island. He owed a mortgage on his farm from a failed molasses deal in 1763 to the Jenckes family from Providence .
The governor of Rhode Island is the head of government of Rhode Island and serves as commander-in-chief of the U.S. state's Army ... William West: 1781: Jabez Bowen ...
Scituate's William West and South Kingstown's Jonathan Hazard were leaders of the rural Country Party which opposed the Constitution. The party "was suspicious of the power and the cost of a government too far removed from the grass-roots level, and so it declined to dispatch delegates to the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, which drafted the United States Constitution.
The early Rhode Island inhabitants named in the Rhode Island Royal Charter, dated July 8, 1663 and signed with the royal seal by King Charles II; this charter was the basis for Rhode Island's government for nearly two centuries: [38] Author: John Clarke; Governor: Benedict Arnold; Deputy Governor: William Brenton; Assistants: William Baulston ...
William West (Rhode Island politician) (c. 1733–1816), American militia general in the American Revolutionary War and later political leader; William West, 1st Baron De La Warr (c. 1520–1595), British political figure; William H. West (judge) (1824–1911), politician and member of the Ohio Supreme Court, 1872–1873
Like father, like son! Dominic West, who is set to play Prince Charles on season 5 of The Crown, will be joined on screen by his son Senan West. ‘The Crown’ Cast Through the Years: Photos Read ...
The case involved a dispute over the estate of William West, a Revolutionary War general from Rhode Island and a party in the first US Supreme Court decision, West v. Barnes (1791). According to West v. Randall, West had died in 1814, and there was a dispute over who must be made a party to the lawsuit regarding his estate. It set an important ...