Jeremiah WEST

1753 - 1806  (53 years)

• Name	Jeremiah WEST  [1]
  	He studied medicine, and on the first outbreak of the Revolution, in April, 1775, volunteered for service in the medical department of the army. He continued in this employment until March, 1782, - holding the rank of surgeon's mate until June, 1778, when he was promoted to be full surgeon. he was connected from July, 1775, to the end of 1776 with General Joseph spencer's Connecticut regiment, and after that with Colonel Samuel B. Webb's regiment. On his resignation from the army he established himself in practice in his native village, and attained the leading position among the physicians of that county. He took an active part in the organization of the Connecticut Medical Society (in 1792), of which he was Treasurer in 1794, Vice-President in 1803, and President from 1804 until his death. He was also much in public life. He served as a member of the General Assembly during fourteen sessions between 1785 and 1804, as well as of the convention of 1788 which ratified the Constitution of the United States. After holding for many years a commission as Justice of the Peace, he was for the last thirteen years of his life on the bench of the County Court as a Justice of the Quorum. He died at his home in Tolland, very suddenly, while sitting at the tea-table, on October 18 1806, in his 54th year. Dr. West is said to have been full six feet in height, with a large and well-proportioned frame, and to have become so corpulent in later life that he weighted about 350 pounds and seemed to shake the ground as he walked. In social life he was cheerful and humorous, and peculiarly companionable and agreeable in his family. He received the honorary degree of M.D. from this College in 1804. [1]
  Birth	20 Jul 1753	Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Oct 1806	Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I93899	Main Tree
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2019

  
  

  Father	Judge Zebulon WEST,   b. 16 Mar 1707   d. 04 Dec 1770, Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut (Age 63 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Sarah AVERY,   b. 1718, Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut d. 17 Nov 1778 (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	22 Feb 1744	Tolland, Tolland County, Connecticut   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F16502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S10359] Ancestry.com: Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College, Vol. III, Annals 1767-68. [S02940] Muriel Curtis Cushing, Philip Delano of the "Fortune" 1621 and his Descendants for Four Generations, (Name: Name: General Society of Mayflower Descendants 2002;;). [S03427] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stafford and Tolland.