Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 380

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(REVOLUTION.) West, Samuel. A Sermon Preached before the Honorable Council, and the Honorable House of Representatives . . . Being the Anniversary for the Election of the Honorable Council for the Colony. 70 pages. 8vo, disbound, with remnants of prior binding; foxing and staining to half-title; early owners's signatures on half-title. Boston, 1776

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West, the pastor of a church in Dartmouth, advocates independence in this 29 May 1776 sermon, writing, "When a people find themselves cruelly oppressed by the parent state, they have an undoubted right to throw of[f] the yoke, and to assert their liberty." West later served on the Massachusetts committee which ratified the Constitution. Evans 15217; Adams, American Independence 230.