Son of Nathaniel West, one of the original members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, R. I., who "while on a visit to the Plymouth Colony in February 1658, had occasion to go to Providence, and going upon the ice, he broke through and was drowned," the jury finding that his death was accidental. [693]

June 25, 1719, Nathaniel West (son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Dungan) West), husbandman, and Elizabeth his wife, conveyed to John Addis, of Philadelphia County, Pa., a tract of land; the deed referring to a grant by Clement and Thomas Dungan, to Nathaniel West, Dec. 7, 1708, recorded in Book 4, p. 27. (Deed Book 13, p. 274, Bucks County). [693]