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Silas Deane
Silas Deane ( – September 23, 1789) was an American merchant, politician and diplomat. A supporter of American independence, Deane served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and then as the United States' first foreign diplomat when he traveled to France to lobby the French government for aid. Deane was drawn into a major political fight over his actions in Paris, and subsequently endorsed Loyalist criticisms of American independence. After the war, Deane lived in Ghent and then London. During his return voyage back to America, Deane died under mysterious circumstances.
==Early life and family==
Silas Deane was born on 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. In April 1759 he was hired to tutor a young Edward Bancroft in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1761 Deane was admitted to the bar and practiced law for a short time outside of Hartford before moving to Wethersfield, Connecticut and establishing a thriving business as a merchant.
Deane married twice, both times to wealthy widows from Wethersfield. He married his first wife, Mehitable (Nott) Webb in 1763, after assisting her with the settlement of her first husband's estate. They had one son, Jesse, who was born in 1764. Mehitable died in 1767.〔 Silas then married Elizabeth (Saltonstall) Evards in 1770. Elizabeth was a granddaughter of Connecticut Governor Gurdon Saltonstall of the Massachusetts Saltonstall family. Elizabeth died in 1777 while Silas was in France negotiating for the Continental Congress.〔
One of Deane's stepsons was Continental Army Officer Brigadier General Samuel Blatchley Webb.〔
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