SAMUEL BRYAN

• Born: September 30, 1759
• Died: October 6, 1821
• Nationality:
• Profession: Anti-Federalist Author In Pennsylvania

Samuel Bryan was a resident of Pennsylvania and Anti-Federalist author, who wrote during the Confederation Period. Historians generally ascribe to him the Letters of Centinel written under the pseudonym Centinel between 1787 and 1789. Centinel attacked the proposed Constitution of the United States as a document in the interests of the "well-born few". He was the son of George Bryan, a judge on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the principal Anti-Federalist in the state, to whom the essays were frequently attributed at the time they were written.