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...
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Edward Bancroft (section Death of Silas Deane)
years later to David Bull of Connecticut. There Bancroft studied under Silas Deane, a schoolmaster who later became an important politician and diplomat...
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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...
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Thomas Paine (section Silas Deane Affair)
critical of Silas Deane, an American diplomat who had been appointed in March 1776 by the Congress to travel to France in secret. Deane's goal was to...
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Wethersfield, Connecticut (redirect from Silas Deane Middle School)
moved to New Haven and developed over the decades as Yale University. Silas Deane, envoy to France during the American Revolutionary War, lived in the...
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down. Nicholson took command and renamed the ship the Deane after American Founding Father Silas Deane. On 14 February the crew was present at the 13-gun...
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billionaire Silas Farley, American ballet dancer, choreographer and educator Silas Feitosa José De Souza (born 1985), Brazilian footballer Silas Deane (1738–1789)...
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the center of Old Wethersfield: the 1752 Joseph Webb House, the 1769 Silas Deane House and the 1789 Isaac Stevens House. The first two houses are listed...
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Places (NRHP) Silas Deane House, Wethersfield, Connecticut, NRHP-listed Francis Deane Cottage, Uxbridge, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed Deane-Williams House...
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parish Deane, Hampshire, a village Deane, Kentucky USS Deane (1778), US Navy frigate named after Silas Deane HMS Deane (K551), a 1943 British Royal Navy...
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Connecticut Route 99 (redirect from Silas Deane Highway)
(Route 160), the road becomes a four-lane road known as the Silas Deane Highway. The Silas Deane Highway continues through Rocky Hill up to the town of Wethersfield...
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missions ruined. For example, in 1776, the Committee was instructing Silas Deane, an undercover agent in France, on how to interact with the French government...
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granted, and by the time Silas Deane arrived in Paris, French arms and other aid was on its way to the revolutionaries. Deane expanded the relationship...
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John Laurens Jonathan L. Austin Lydia Darrah Paul Revere Pierre Ayotte Silas Deane Van Rensselaer's Regiment William Bingham Abraham Woodhull Agent 355...
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propaganda campaigns. Paine served as secretary, while Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, sent to France to recruit military engineers, were instrumental in securing...
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1778 Treaty of Alliance with France, along with Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, which allied France and the United States in fighting the war. Lee was...
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House of Commons briefly. He was friendly with Arthur Lee (diplomat), Silas Deane, Philip Skene and Benedict Arnold.: 1753 Wentworth may have been born...
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year 1776 saw delicate negotiations between American agents, including Silas Deane, and Louis XVI and his foreign minister, Comte Charles de Vergennes....
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template provided in the plan of treaties; the next day, Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Thomas Jefferson were elected commissioners to the court of France...
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Morris helped arrange for the appointment of Silas Deane as Congress's representative to France; Deane was charged with procuring supplies and securing...
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bound by heavy wrought-iron hoops." The shape of the hull, Gale informed Silas Deane, "has the nearest resemblance to the two upper shells of a Tortoise joined...
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Adams learned that he was to be named commissioner to France, replacing Silas Deane and joining Franklin and Arthur Lee in Paris to negotiate an alliance...
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otherwise benefit the Continental Army. The Continental Congress appointed Silas Deane and John Langdon to draft a plan to seize ships from the convoy in question...
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John Rogers, American Continental Congressman for Maryland (b. 1723) Silas Deane, American Continental Congressman for Connecticut (b. 1737) October 9...
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the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Webb's father died in 1761 when Samuel was eight years old. His mother married the family attorney, Silas Deane, two years...
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frigate built for the U.S. Commissioners in France – Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Arthur Lee – to a design by the French naval architect Jacques Boux...
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Robert Treat Paine Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins; Samuel Ward Connecticut Silas Deane; Eliphalet Dyer; Roger Sherman New York John Alsop; Simon Boerum; James...
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Buttolph–Williams House — 249 Broad St. Joseph Webb House — 211 Main St. Silas Deane House — 203 Main St. Another prominent historic building in the district...
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supporting a new British opponent. Through negotiations conducted first by Silas Deane and then by Benjamin Franklin, France began covert support of the patriots'...
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Jonathan L. Austin – appears in "Allies at Last" Samuel Adams Samuel Chase Silas Deane Benjamin Franklin (Walter Cronkite) John Hancock Patrick Henry (Michael...
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