WEST, Stephen, clergyman, born in Tolland, Connecticut, 13 November, 1735; died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 15 May, 1819. His father, Zebulon West, was a judge of the court of Hartford county. The son was graduated at Harvard in 1755, and afterward taught school at Hatfield, Massachusetts, where he began the study of theology. He became chaplain at Hoosick fort in 1757, succeeded Jonathan Edwards in the Indian mission at Stockbridge in 1758, and was ordained as minister of the Congregational church there in 1759. In 1770 he resigned charge of the Indian mission, and about the same time he adopted Calvinistic theological opinions in opposition to his former views, which were Arminian. He was one of the original trustees of Williams college, was chosen vice-president at the first meeting of the board, and held this office for nineteen years. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him in 1792 by Dartmouth. In addition to many theological treatises and sermons, and essays in the "Theological Magazine" and "Connecticut Evangelical Magazine," he published "Essay on Moral Agency : Remarks on Edwards's 'Inquiry on the Freedom of the Will'" (New Haven, 1772); " Duty and Obligation of Christians to Marry only in the Lord" (1779); " An Essay on the Scripture Doctrine of the Atonement" (1785);" An Inquiry into the Ground and Import of Infant Baptism" (1794); "Life of Samuel Hopkins, D. D." (1806); " Three Sermons on the Mosaic Account of the Creation" (1809); and "Evidence of the Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ collected from the Scriptures" (1816).