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1. 1. Silas Deane Online

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   Published on: 8/16/2008   Last Visited: 8/16/2008

   Silas Deane
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   Abigail Adams (1744-1818) - Deane and Abigail (wife of John) both wrote letters about the places they lived, the people they met and their impressions of the times.
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   Philura Deane Alden (1798 - 18??) - Deane's granddaughter who with her husband Horatio presented "Memorial" to Congress in 1835 that was successful in finally reimbursing the money owed Silas.
   
   Ethan Allen (1738-1789) - (see signature) Deane convinced the Connecticut legislature to provide the financial assistance needed for Allen and his Green Mountain Boys to capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775.
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   Deane refused to be connected with Arnold in London.
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   Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) - Deane used Beaumarchais as his French connection in procuring supplies for the Continental Army.Like Deane, Beaumarchais struggled for reimbursement of personal contributions from Congress.
   
   Edward Bancroft (1745-1821) - Deane tutored Bancroft in Hartford and speculated with him in France while Bancroft, on the recommendation of Franklin, was serving as a secretary to the American delegation.
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   Bancroft was also Deane's personal physician and cause of many of the slurs against Deane after his death.
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   Barnabas Deane (1743-1794) - Deane's brother and business partner who received many letters from Silas sent from Philadelphia, France and England.

2. 2. www.americanrevolution.com

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   Published on: 8/2/2008   Last Visited: 8/2/2008

   Silas DeaneThe American Revolution - The Making of America and Her Independence
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   Silas Deane
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   People of the Revolutionary War | Patriots of the American Revolution | Silas Deane
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   Silas Deane
   
   Silas Deane was a delegate to the American Continental Congress and later a diplomat.
   
   He was born in Groton, Connecticut, graduated from Yale in 1758 and in 1761 was admitted to the bar, but instead of practicing became a merchant at Wethersfield.
   
   He took an active part in the movements in Connecticut preceding the War of Independence, and from 1774 to 1776 was a delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress.Early in 1776 he was sent to France by Congress, in a semi-official capacity, as a secret agent to induce the French government to lend its financial aid to the colonies.Subsequently he became, with Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, one of the regularly accredited commissioners to France from Congress.
   
   On arriving in Paris, Deane at once opened negotiations with Vergennes and Beaumarchais, securing through the latter the shipment of many vessel loads of arms and munitions of war to America.
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   While serving in Paris as an agent of the Committee of Secret Correspondence, Silas Deane is known to have used a heat-developing invisible ink, compounded of cobalt chloride, glycerine and water, for some of his intelligence reports back to America.
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   The stain required one chemical for writing the message and a second to develop it, affording greater security than the ink used by Deane earlier.Once, in a letter to John Jay, Robert Morris spoke of an innocuous letter from "Timothy Jones" (Deane) and the "concealed beauties therein," noting "the cursory examinations of a sea captain would never discover them, but transferred from his hand to the penetrating eye of a Jay, the diamonds stand confessed at once."

3. 3. Dr Edward Bancroft Biography

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   Published on: 8/16/2008   Last Visited: 8/16/2008

   While growing up in Hartford, Bancroft studied under Silas Deane, after the latter's graduation from Yale.
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   For example, when the Committee for Secret Correspondence sent Silas Deane to Paris to examine the political climate of France, Franklin provided Deane instructions to contact Bancroft.
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   Deane was told that to arrange the meeting:
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   Deane had been Bancroft's teacher, so it would be natural for a teacher to try to contact a former successful student.
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   A day after Deane arrived in France, 7 June 1776, he mailed a letter requesting Bancroft come to Paris to discuss some assistance to Deane in procuring goods for Indian trade and enclosing 30 pounds to defray travel expenses.
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   Deane and Bancroft quickly established a close rapport, so much so that Deane informed Bancroft of his true mission in Paris.
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   Deane and Bancroft quickly established a close rapport, so much so that Deane informed Bancroft of his true mission in Paris.
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   Bancroft declined an invitation to attend the negotiations between Deane and the French but agreed to serve as Deane's assistant and interpreter during meetings with French agents, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais and Monsieur Donatien le Rey de Chaumont.
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   Deane informed Bancroft that the American objective was to motivate a Bourbon-Prussian coalition against England on the continent to force the British to redirect their power to a continental conflict and leave the colonies alone.
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   But Mr. Paul Wentworth, having gained some general knowledge of my journey to France, and of my intercourse with Mr. Deane, and having induced me to believe that the British Ministry were likewise informed on this subject, I at length consented to meet the then Secretaries of State, Lords Weymouth and Suffolk, and give them all the information in my power, which I did with the most disinterested views."
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   Compliments of Franklin and Deane, who sent Bancroft on frequent secret intelligence missions to London, Bancroft had the luxury of sitting down in a relaxed atmosphere to be debriefed by Lord Suffolk and others.
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   While serving in Paris as an agent of the Committee of Secret Correspondence, Silas Deane is known to have used a heat-developing invisible ink, compounded of cobalt chloride, glycerin and water, for some of his intelligence reports back to America.
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   The stain required one chemical for writing the message and a second to develop it, affording greater security than the ink used by Deane earlier.Once, in a letter of John Jay, Robert Morris spoke of an innocuous letter from "Timothy Jones" (Deane) and the "concealed beauties therein," noting "the cursory examinations of a sea captain would never discover them, but transferred from his hand to the penetrating eye of a Jay, the diamonds stand confessed at once."