Talk:Benjamin West
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[edit] Was Benjamin West a Quaker?
I'm thinking that Benjamin West should be removed from Category:Quakers. He's listed as a "famous Quaker" on several sites but I just found this which is further supported by the following passages from Alberts' "Benjamin West: A Biography":
"[John West] had been a Quaker - every person born of Quaker parents was a member of that religious fellowship at birth - but he did not carry with him a certificate of transfer, which meant that he was not in good standing with the Society of Friends when he left England." (7)
"Sarah Pearson, too, had been a birthright Quaker, but now for some unknown reason ... she had been 'disowned', read out of meeting. The marriage ceremony, of course, was not conducted according to the rules of the Society of Friends, and so the children of John and Sarah Pearson West, of whom there were ten, were not registered at meeting and were not Quakers. The point is an important one, for Benjamin, their youngest child, was widely believed to be a Quaker..." (8) Rampart 14:28, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
West wasn't a Quaker & that category should be removed. There's been quite a bit of scholarship disproving this, and there never was any evidence for it. He did depict his father in Quaker dress in a family portrait (and even inserted his father's likeness in his famous "Penn's Treaty with the Indians") but West never demonstrated any Quaker affiliations and, indeed, his social and political associations were quite different (his early patrons were strongly opposed to Quaker rule in Pa., for instance). Jericlifs (talk) 16:20, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rebellion/Revolution
I am reverting Rebellion to Revolution as Revolution is the more commonly known term for the period and Rebellion might be a violation of NPOV from the side of the Brittish. Cobalty 12:28, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
