American merchant, politician, and diplomat (1737/8–1789)
Silas Deane
Silas Deane, 1781
United States Envoy to France
In office March 2, 1776 – January 4, 1778
Serving with Benjamin Franklin, Arthur Lee
Appointed by
Continental Congress
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
John Adams
Delegate to the Second Continental Congress from Connecticut
In office May 10, 1775 – January 15, 1776
Delegate to the First Continental Congress from Connecticut
In office September 5, 1774 – October 26, 1774
Personal details
Born
January 4, 1738 Groton, Connecticut
Died
September 23, 1789 (1789-09-24) (aged 51) on a ship near Kent, Great Britain
Resting place
St. Leonard's Churchyard, Deal, Kent, United Kingdom
Spouses
Mehitable Nott Webb
(m. 1763; died 1767)
Elizabeth Saltonstall Evards
(m. 1770; died 1777)
Children
Jesse Deane
Alma mater
Yale
Silas Deane (January 4, 1738 [O.S. December 24, 1737] – September 23, 1789) was an American merchant, politician, and diplomat, and a supporter of American independence. Deane served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, and then became the first foreign diplomat from the United States to France, where he helped negotiate the 1778 Treaty of Alliance that allied France with the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
Near the end of the war, Congress charged Deane with financial impropriety, and the British intercepted and published some letters in which he had implied that the American cause was hopeless. After the war, Deane lived in Ghent and London and died under mysterious circumstances while attempting to return to America.[1]
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supporting a new British opponent. Through negotiations conducted first by SilasDeane and then by Benjamin Franklin, France began covert support of the patriots'...
template provided in the plan of treaties; the next day, Benjamin Franklin, SilasDeane, and Thomas Jefferson were elected commissioners to the court of France...
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our cause is esteemed the cause of all mankind." Franklin, along with SilasDeane and Arthur Lee, began forging political and trade alliances with France...
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