Claim: Samuel Bryan, a resident of Pennsylvania and Anti-Federalist author, is generally ascribed by historians to the Letters of Centinel wherein he attacked the proposed Constitution of the United States as a document in the interests of the "well-born few.”
Evidence: Samuel Bryan (September 30, 1759 in Philadelphia — October 6, 1821 in Chester County, Pennsylvania) 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".