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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]
Dudley Saltonstall was born in 1738 to Gurdon Saltonstall Jr and Mary Winthrop. Both sides of his family were prominent in British colonial politics; his 3X great-grandfather on his father's side was Sir Richard Saltonstall, and his mother was descended from John Winthrop, who served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the 17th century.
Silas Deane (1738–1789), colonial American politician and diplomat Silas G. Harris ( c. 1818–1851), American politician Silas M. Holmes (1816–1905), American politician
In 1776, the American diplomat Silas Deane came to France to recruit skilled military talent, particularly engineers, for the colonial cause. [2] Impressed by du Coudray, whom he described as the "first engineer" of the French military establishment, Deane agreed to hire du Coudray into the Continental Army with the rank of major general and ...
France's desire to keep their aid to the United States secret was evident during the 1777 incident involving Arthur Lee and Silas Deane. Lee, who frequently aided the Committee of Secret Correspondence, suspected Silas Deane, [3] a colonial agent in France, of financial wrongdoing. [3]
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 .
Hortalez & Co. conducted business with the Americans from France through Connecticut merchant Silas Deane, who was sharing a covert trade agency with Thomas Morris the half-brother of Robert Morris (financier). Because this business did not include Arthur Lee, Lee then made it a point that Beaumarchais would never be paid for the goods he provided.
Congress sent Silas Deane to France to negotiate. On September 25 the Continental Congress ordered Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee to seek a treaty with France based upon Adams's draft treaty that had later been formalized into a Model Treaty which sought the establishment of reciprocal trade relations with France but declined to mention any ...