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The Silas Deane House is a historic house museum at 203 Main Street in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Built in 1766, this National Historic Landmark was the home of Silas Deane (1737–1789), the first foreign diplomat for the United States .
Deane was born on January 4, 1738 [O.S. December 24, 1737] [2] in Groton, Connecticut, to blacksmith Silas Deane and his wife Hannah Barker.The younger Silas was able to obtain a full scholarship to Yale and graduated in 1758. [3]
The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, located in Wethersfield, Connecticut, is owned and operated by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Connecticut. The museum features three 18th-century houses that sit on their original sites in the center of Old Wethersfield: the 1752 Joseph Webb House, the 1769 Silas Deane House and the 1789 Isaac Stevens House.
The Silas Deane Highway was built in 1930 and New England Route 10 was shifted slightly west to use the new highway. In the 1932 state highway renumbering, the alignment was re-designated as Route 9. When Route 9 was upgraded to an expressway between I-91 and I-95 in 1969, the old surface alignment became Route 99. [2]
Silas Deane (1737–1789), delegate to the Continental Congress and the United States' first foreign diplomat; born in Groton; Jesse Hahn (born 1989), Oakland Athletics Pitcher, and a graduate of Fitch Senior High School; George Hall, Arena Football League player, 2008, graduate of Fitch Senior High School
Webb's father died in 1761 when Samuel was eight years old. His mother married the family attorney, Silas Deane, two years later. Webb's mother died in 1767, and Webb's stepfather soon remarried. Deane's second wife, Elizabeth Saltonstall, was a granddaughter of Gurdon Saltonstall, a governor of the Connecticut Colony. [2] [3]
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At the same time as the Committee was undergoing negotiations with Bonvouloir in the United States, they were also instructing Silas Deane, a Connecticut delegate for the Continental Congress. Deane was on an undercover assignment in France, trying to convince the French that the United States really were ready to fight for independence, and ...