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A Guide to the Silas Deane Papers at the Connecticut
Historical Society
Compiled by NHPRC Project Staff
EAD conversion sponsored by grant funding from the National Historical Publications and
Records Commission. Grant # 98-101
Connecticut Historical Society,
July 1999
1 Elizabeth Street Hartford, CT 06105
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Silas Deane
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Silas Deane Papers
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1740 - 1782
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Personal and business correspondence, writings, business and legal papers, and accounts relating overseas activity. Also included is the Memorial to Congress, documents supporting the claims of Silas Deane's heirs against the US government. Series 6 contains correspondence of Barnabas Deane, Silas' brother.
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11 boxes; 298 folders; 1888 items; 7 feet
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Manuscript stacks
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An index of ca. 550 catalog cards is available to
aid access to this collection and material in other collections. Access is through writer, recipient and date. The card catalog is located in the library reading room. The reader is also directed to the Print Room and Museum for non-documentary materials.
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Collection consists predoiminaly of correspondence, personal and business. Notable correspondents include: Robert Morris, Caron de
Beaumarchais, the Compte de Vergennes, Jonathan Trumbull, Benjamin Gale, Oliver Ellsworth and William Drayton.
Series 2: Writings, consists of memoires, essays, personal notes and petitions written by Deane, intended for publication or speech.
Business and legal papers relate mostly to shipping and shipping interests, particularly regarding contracts with the British Government over the supply of spar masts from the North American colonies.
The series of accounts contains items concerning Dean's returnable expenditure incurred whilst in France, England and the Low Countries, as well as accounts held with Jean Chartles DeBay, Haller Geradot, Ferdinand Grand, Nicholas LaFarque and Jonathan William.
Also included in this collection are the correspondence of Deane's brother, Barnabas, and the Memorial to Congress, being documents supporting the claims of Silas Deane's heirs against the US government
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The Silas Deane papers in The Connecticut Historical Society were
acquired in different lots at different times in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Most were donated by Isabel Alden Thomas, the great-
granddaughter of Silas Deane and last direct heir. Some were printed in
Volumes II and XXIII of the Society's Collections, some microfilmed and
some not reproduced at all. The 1835 Memorial to Congress by Philura
Deane Alden and Horatio Alden was acquired from the U.S. Department of
the Treasury in 1875. The bound volume containing the manuscripts of the
Memorial which included the correspondence of Robert Morris, Caron de
Beaumarchais, the Compte de Vergennes and other notables of the period,
the original commissions of LaFayette and DeKalb and Silas Deane's own
accounts prepared and presented to Congress, was found on May 15, 1871 in
the waste paper bin of the Register's File Room of the Treasury and
retrieved by a clerk, D.S. Green. It was acquired by the Society through
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Correspondence: 1753-1795
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Writings: 1772-1786
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Business and Legal Papers: 1753-1788
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Accounts: 1765-1781
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Memorial to Congress: 1776-1842
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Barnabas Deane: 1768-1792
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The documents are arranged chronologically within each series except in
Series 5: Memorial to Congress where the original order is kept. Folders
are numbered sequentially within each series. An index of correspondents
is appended. Some letters are contemporary copies by Deane, his
secretary or the secretaries of his correspondents. There are several
photocopies from other collections. The number of items listed for each
folder represents the number of pieces of paper, rather than the number
of letters or entities.
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Silas Deane was born December 24, 1737 at Ledyard, CT, son of Silas Dean (sic), a
blacksmith and land speculator, and Sarah Barker Dean, formerly of Marshfield, MA. Following his graduation from Yale College in 1758 he taught school in Hartford while reading for the bar. One of his pupils was Edward Bancroft, later the notorious doctor turned British agent, who served as
Secretary to the American Commission in Paris. In the course of settling the estate of Joseph Webb of Wethersfield, he met and married his widow, Mehitabel, in 1763. They had one son,
Jesse. After she died in 1767 Deane married in 1770 Elizabeth Saltonstall, granddaughter of a governor and daughter of a general. Through his marriages Deane assumed quickly an established
financial and social position in Wethersfield. He pursued his legal profession but was engaged
chiefly as a merchant and West Indian trader.
Deane was active in his community's church and represented Wethersfield for several
terms in the Connecticut Assembly. He participated enthusiastically in the protest movement against British commercial policy. He was secretary of the Connecticut Committee of Correspondence and attended meetings and conventions which discussed ways of expressing the colonies' complaints. In 1774the Connecticut Committee of Correspondence appointed Deane, Roger Sherman and Eliphalet Dyer as delegates to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. In this position Deane served on 40 committees, being especially effective on the naval committee and as chairman of ways and means. He disliked his fellow delegate, Roger Sherman, and their incongeniality later hurt Deane as Sherman opposed him politically. During the recess, December 1774- 1775 Deane and some associates gave their personal financial backing to the daring capture of Fort Ticonderoga.
Delegates to the Continental Congress
in the fall of 1775were elected rather than Appointed and Sherman's organization defeated Deane. He had made such an impression in Philadelphia, however, that he was chosen by the Committee on Secrecy as Congress' agent to France to procure supplies and by the Committee on Secret Correspondence to promote a treaty of alliance. He departed March 16, 1776 and arrived at Bordeauxin May. In addition to his official duties, Deane had private business assignments with the Morris, Willing Company of Philadelphia and for his own family enterprises. Deane was to purchase supplies and materiel for Congress with money or credit from the sale of American commodities in Europe. He was to receive a commission of 5%. With no contacts and speaking no French it was a daunting situation which only an energetic and resourceful entrepreneur like Deane would attempt.
He established a relationship with Hortalez and Cie, a firm devised by the French government and headed by Caron de Beaumarchais, the dramatist, to aid the colonies, ostensibly privately. Deane through this and other deals managed to ship supplies and guns to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where they arrived in time to assure the victory at Saratoga. This in turn convinced the French to sign a treaty of alliance. Congress had created an American Commission at Paris
to supercede its individual agent. Deane was named a Commissioner along with Benjamin Franklin who arrived in September and Arthur Lee of Virginiaand London. Deane and the others signed the treaty of alliance Feb. 6, 1778. Meanwhile Deane's enemies in Congress and the friends and
family of Arthur Lee, his antagonistic fellow commissioner in Paris, demanded his recall March 4 to report on the situation in Europe and account for funds spent. Deane would have preferred to postpone his return but on the advice of Franklin sailed on D'Estaing's flagship with Conrad A. Gerard, the first French minister to the United States, arriving in Philadelphia July 11, 1778.
Congress then proceeded to ignore Deane's efforts to meet and make his report and present his accounts for payment. He had used many of his own funds for the government's business and commissions were owed him, but he was thought to have misused government funds for his own interest. As time passed and Deane became aware that his enemies in Congress were humiliating him, he grew impatient and wrote a public statement which was taken up by the press. This was resented by Congress. During the year in which Deane waited on Congress he was nominated for a seat in the upper house of the Connecticut legislature but did not serve. In August 1779 Congress offered him $10,000 in depreciated currency which he refused.
He determined to return to France to collect the vouchers needed to substantiate his claims. After attending to family commercial business in Virginia, he returned to France in March 1780, a private citizen.
In Paris Franklin was supportive and hospitable and Deane prepared his accounts, but
again, Congress delayed reviewing them. Thomas Barclay, the Consul at Paris, was appointed
by Congress to the task but claimed he had not the authority to settle them. Deane moved to
Ghentto save money and avoid imposing on Franklin. His health and his fortunes deteriorated and his morale suffered keenly at the frustration of the delays. Eventually he moved to England and lived for a while on the charity of friends, among them Dr. Edward Bancroft, the erstwhile
secretary of the American Commissoners in Paris, whose role as a double agent for the British
was not revealed until about 1870. Deane received discouraging reports from friends at home,
Robert Morris among them, about the almost total erosion of the currency and the fiscally
irresponsible Congress. In his own despondency he came to think a negotiated settlement of the
war was advisable and wrote in this vein to friends, perhaps conniving at the interception of the letters by the British. They were published by the Tory publicist in New York, Rivington, and caused an outcry of treason. In 1867 published correspondence of Lord North and the King
describes a suggestion of a bribe, but no evidence has come to light that it was actually offered or taken. Deane denied it later. At the nadir of his fortunes and perspective on the war, Deane was unaware that with the intervention of the French navy the military balance changed quickly and, as the Rivington letters appeared, Cornwallis's, surrender was imminent.
Deane longed to return home but his loyal brother, Barnabas, warned he would not be accepted at that time. Remaining in London, Silas Deane explored many ideas for the promotion of post-war Anglo American commerce. Of special interest was a scheme for a canal between the St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain which he discussed with Lord Sheffield and Lord Dorchester (Guy Carleton), the Governor-General of Canada. Full of hope for such prospects he borrowed money to board ship at Deal September 23, 1789. But before sailing, he suffered a violent abdominal attack which caused a paralysis and death after a few hours. Suspicions of poisoning by Dr. Bancroft, an authority on poisons, have not been proved. He was buried at Deal. Barnabas later thanked and
reimbursed a kind American, Theodore Hopkins, who attended to the interment of the body. His son, Jesse Deane, was to recieve from Londonin 1795proceeds from the sale of a diamond encrusted gold snuff box of his fathers.
Silas Deane's granddaughter and only heir, Philura Deane Alden and her husband, Horatio Alden of Hartford, prepared in 1835 a Memorial to Congress documenting his claims for money owed him by the government. The Memorial contains accounts and important documents such as Lafayette's commission. In 1842 both houses awarded the heirs $37,000, a partial restitution, and described the original audit by a Congressional Committee under the chairmanship of his old enemy, Arthur Lee, as "ex parte, erroneous and a gross injustice to Silas Deane".
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Series 1: Correspondence: 1753 - 1795
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1753 - 1795
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31 folders
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DEANS/1789 -- I
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Series consist of letters to and from Silas Deane. Notable correspondents include: Robert Morris, Caron de Beaumarchais, the Compte de Vergennes, Jonathan Trumbull, Benjamin Gale, Oliver Ellsworth and William Drayton.
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Folder 1.A
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Archives Control File.
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Folder 1.1
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1761 - 1769
(6 items)
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Folder 1.4
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
5 July 1770 - 3 Oct. 1770
(8 items)
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Folder 1.5
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
5 April 1771 - 26 Feb. 1772
(3 items)
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Folder 1.6
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
3 Sept. 1772 - 26 Feb. 1773
(7 items)
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Folder 1.7
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (Photocopies 7 Feb., 11 April - 13 July, 20 July 1774).
26 March 1774 - 25 July 1774
(6 items)
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Folder 1.8
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Letters to and from Silas Deane (19 Aug. Jonathan Trumbull).(Photocopies 1 Aug., 4 Aug., 9 Aug., 17 Aug. 1774).
18 Aug. 1774 - 29 Aug. 1774
(5 items)
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Folder 1.9
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
3 Sept. 1774 - 23 Sept. 1774
(25 items)
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Folder 1.10
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
9 Oct. 1774 - 30 Dec. 1774
(7 items)
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Folder 1.11
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (27 Feb. Benjamin Gale)
7 Feb. 1775 - 28 Feb. 1775
(8 items)
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Folder 1.12
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
30 March 1775
(2 items)
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Folder 1.13
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
4 April 1775 - 29 April 1775, n.d. 1775
(12 items)
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Folder 1.14
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (photocopy 15 May 1775).
4 May 1775 - 15 May 1775
(6 items)
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Folder 1.15
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
21 May 1775 - 31 May 1775
(8 items)
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Folder 1.16
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1 June 1775 - 11 June 1775
(12 items)
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Folder 1.17
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
18 June 1775 - 25 June 1775
(10 items)
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Folder 1.18
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1 July 1775 - 23 July 1775
(13 items)
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Folder 1.19
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. Major correspondent: Jonathan Trumbull.(See Oversize Box 1 for 31 Aug. 1775)
10 August 1775 - 30 August 1775
(8 items)
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Folder 1.20
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (11 Sept. agreement with Sieur Du Coudrey - photocopy).
5 Sept. 1775 - 29 Sept. 1775
(7 items)
See Oversize Box 1 for 7 Sept. 1775
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Folder 1.21
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
3 Oct. 1775 - 30 Oct. 1775
(9 items)
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Folder 1.22
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (Benjamin Gale) - 27 Nov. 1775
9 Nov. 1775
(12 items)
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Folder 1.23
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (Benjamin Gale)
5 Dec. 1775
(1 item)
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Folder 1.24
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1775 (no month)
(1 item)
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Folder 1.25
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Letters to and from Silas Deane (re. Benedict Arnold 24 Jan. 1776).
2 Jan. 1776 - 28 Jan. 1776
(12 items)
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Folder 1.27
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
4 April 1776 - May 1776
(5 items)
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Folder 1.28
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Letters to and from Silas Deane (June E. Bancroft).
5 June 1776 - 25 June 1776
(5 items)
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Folder 1.29
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1 July 1776 - 30 July 1776
(15 items)
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Folder 1.31
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
12 Sep. 1776 - 30 Sept. 1776
(10 items)
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Folder 1.32
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
2 Oct. 1776 - 26 Oct. 1776
(11 items)
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Folder 1.33
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
7 Nov. 1776 - 30 Nov. 1776
(15 items)
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Folder 1.34
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (7 Dec. arrival of
Franklin, France)
2 Dec. 1776 - 12 Dec. 1776,
(10 items)
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Folder 1.35
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Letters to and from Silas Deane (copies of letters
Arthur Lee to committee of Secret Correspondence).
12 Dec. 1776 - 31 Dec. 1776
(9 items)
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Folder 2.36
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
6 Jan. 1777 - 14 Jan. 1777
(13 items)
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Folder 2.37
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Letters to and from Silas Deane (Carmichael, Thomas Morris and Robert Morris).
16 Jan. 1777 - 31 Jan. 1777
(16 items)
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Folder 2.38
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
2 Feb. 1777 13 Feb. 1777
(10 items)
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Folder 2.40
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
2 March 1777 - 20 March 1777
(6 items)
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Folder 2.41
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
21 March 1777 31 March 1777
(7 items)
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Folder 2.42
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
12 April 1777 - 13 April 1777
(9 items)
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Folder 2.43
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
19 April 1777 26 April 1777
(9 items)
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Folder 2.44
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
2 May 1777 - 22 May 1777
(8 items)
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Folder 2.45
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
23 May 1777 - 26 May 1777
(7 items)
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Folder 2.46
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
2 June 1777 - 19 June 1777
(10 items)
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Folder 2.48
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1 July 1777 - 15 July 1777
(10 items)
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Folder 2.49
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
19 July 1777 - 31 July 1777
(10 items)
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Folder 2.50
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1 Aug. 1777 - 19 Aug. 1777
(8 items)
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Folder 2.51
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
15 Aug. 1777 - 31 Aug. 1777
(9 items)
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Folder 2.52
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1 Sept. 1777 - 15 Sept. 1777
(9 items)
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Folder 2.53
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
16 Sept. 1777 - 27 Sept. 1777
(8 items)
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Folder 2.55
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
2 Oct. 1777 - 31 Oct. 1777
(10 items)
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Folder 2.56
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
7 Nov. 1777 - 25 Nov. 1777
(7 items)
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Folder 2.57
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
6 Dec. 1777 - 17 Dec.
(10 items)
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Folder 2.58
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
20 Dec. 1777 - 30 Dec. 1777
(14 items)
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Folder 2.58a
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
[1777?]
(1 item)
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Folder 3.59
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
3 Jan. 1778 - 31 Jan. 1778
(9 items)
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Folder 3.60
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Letters to and from Silas Deane (6 Feb. 1778 copy treaty with
France).
5 Feb. 1778-28 Feb. 1778
(9 items)
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Folder 3.61
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (12 March 1778 A. Lee; 29 March 1778 S.D. to Beaumarchais - copy; 31 March 1778 Franklin to H. Laurens - 2 copies)
3 March - 31 March 1778
(17 items)
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Folder 3.62
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (1 April 1778 & 24 April 1778 W.T. Franklin)
1778
(5 items)
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Folder 3.64
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
8 July 1778 - 22 July 1778
(2 items)
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Folder 3.65
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
26 Aug. 1778 30 Nov. 1778
(6 items)
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Folder 3.66
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
5 Dec. 1778 - 23 Dec. 1778
(4 items)
Letter of 21 Dec. 1778 filed in folder 3.67
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Folder 3.67
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Silas Deane: Letter to Congress.
21 Dec. 1778 1778
(1 volume)
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Folder 3.68
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Draft letter to R. H. Lee for publication in Pennsylvania
17 Jan. 1779
(2 items)
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Folder 3.69
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
9 Feb. 1779 - 20 March 1779
(4 items)
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Folder 3.70
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Memorial to Congress
by William Drayton
19 April 1779 - 30 April 1779
(4 items)
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Folder 3.71
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Letter to Congress
22 May 1779
(4 items)
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Folder 3.72
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Address to the Free and Virtuous Citizens of America.
3 June 1779
(4 items)
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Folder 3.73
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
27 July 1779 - 29 Sept 1779
(7 items)
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Folder 3. 74
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
12 Nov. 1779 - 28 Dec. 1779
(4 items)
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Folder 3.74a
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Letter from "President of congress".
1779
(1 item)
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Folder 3.75
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (4 Robert Morris)
2 Feb. 1780 (copy) - 17 April 1780
(8 items)
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Folder 3.78
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
25 July 1781 - 26 Sept. 1781
(6 items)
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Folder 3.79
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Letters to and from Silas Deane, two from John Jay, one (incomplete) from Robert Morris.
28 March 1781 - 18 June 1781
(6 items)
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Folder 3.80
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
2 Oct. 1781 - Nov. 1781
(8 items)
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Folder 3.81
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Letters to and from Silas Deane, including letters from Oliver Ellsworth.
22 Jan. 1782 - 31 Jan. 1782
(10 items)
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Folder 3.82
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Letters to and from Silas Deane, including one to Benjamin Franklin.
5 Feb. 1782
(1 volume)
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Folder 3.84
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Letters to and from Silas Deane (some fragments).
16 Sept. 1782 - Nov. 1782
(14 items)
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Folder 4.85
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
4 Jan. 1783 - 28 Feb. 1783
(14 items)
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Folder 4.86
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
3 March 1783 - 3 April 1783
(6 items)
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Folder 4.87
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
5 April 1783 - 23 April 1783
(5 items)
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Folder 4.88
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1 May 1783 - 24 June 1783
(7 items)
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Folder 4.89
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. (3 Aug. 1783 Benjamin Franklin)
25 July 1783 - 16 Aug. 1783
(7 items)
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Folder 4.90
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. Includes: 1783 dated by C.
Destler, re. John Trumbull, the Painter, 1783 extract instructions to Barclay, Sheffield.
22 Sept. 1783 - 20 Oct. 1783
(5 items)
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Folder 4.91
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
15 Jan. 1784 30 April 1784
(6 items)
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Folder 4.92
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
21 May 1784 22 Dec. 1784
(8 items)
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Folder 4.93
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(first page missing, appears to be a letter) ms. refutation of calumny of Henry Laurens.
1784
(14 items)
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Folder 4.94
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Letters to and from Silas Deane. Includes an open letter to Joseph Reed
1784
(27 items)
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Folder 4.95
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
7 April 1785 - 12 June 1785
(5 items)
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Folder 4.96
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1 July 1785 - 5 Dec 1785
(8 items)
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Folder 4.97
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Letters to and from Silas Deane, including on to Lord
Doncaster and reply attached; 1 May 1787 (printed in Vol. 23 CHS Collections as 1789)
17 March 1786, 29 March 1787, 24 Oct 1787
(3 items)
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Folder 4.98
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
1 Feb. 1788 - 10 Aug. 1788
(6 items)
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Folder 4.99
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
3 Sept. 178.8 - 28 Oct. 1788
(6 items)
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Folder 4.100
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
19 Nov. 1788 - 26 Dec. 1788
(8 items)
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Folder 4.101
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Letters to and from Silas Deane.
9 Jan. 1789 - 12 Aug. 1789
(11 items)
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Folder 4.102
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Barnabas Deane to Theodore Hopkins on the death of Silas Deane.
25 Feb. 1790
(1 item)
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Folder 4.103
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Letters from Robert Harris & Theodore Hopkins.
7 Jan. 1795 & 19 Feb 1795
(2 items)
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Folder 5.104
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Letterbook: 26 Aug. 1777 - 30 March 1778
26 Aug. 1777 - 30 March 1778
(1 Volume)
Mss note first leaf "One of Silas Deane's Letterbooks containing his correspondence from March 30 to August 23, 1777 was stolen from him by one Foulloy and sold to Jefferson for 25 louis for the account of the government. See Jefferson's Works, Vol ii, 454, 578, 582. The Secretary of State, May 8, 1876, wrote me that the book was not in the possession of that department" C.J.H. (Charles F. Hoadley).
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Folder 5.105
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Letterbook: 8 April 1780 - 23 Oct. 1781
8 April 1780 - 23 Oct. 1781
(1 Volume)
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Folder 5.106
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Letterbook: 21 Oct. 1781 - 2 April 1784
21 Oct. 1781 - 2 April 1784
(1 Volume)
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Folder 6.107
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Silas Deane Correspondence in other CHS collections: William Samuel Johnsonfrom the William Samuel Johnson Papers.
7 Feb. 1774 - 4 Aug. 1774
(4 items)
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Folder 6.108
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Silas Deane Correspondence (transcriptions) in other CHS collections: Richard Law from Ernst Law Papers.
(2 items)
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Folder 6.109
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Silas Deane Correspondence in other CHS collections: Jonathan Trumbull from Jonathan Trumbull, Sr. Papers.
17 Aug. 1774 - 20 June 1775
(13 items)
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Folder 6.110
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Silas Deane Correspondence in other CHS collections: Joseph Trumbull from Joseph Trumbull Papers.
11 April 1774 - 7 Sept. 1775
(3 items)
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Folder 6.111
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Silas Deane Correspondence in other CHS collections: Jeremiah Wadsworth from Jeremiah Wadsworth Papers.
12 Oct. 1778
(6 items)
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Folder 6.112
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Silas Deane Correspondence in other CHS collections: Jeremiah Wadsworth from Jeremiah Wadsworth Papers.
9 Feb. 1779, 21 June 1779, 20 July 1779
(6 items)
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Folder 6.113
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Silas Deane Correspondence in other CHS collections: Jeremiah Wadsworth from Jeremiah Wadsworth Papers.
23 April 1786
(2 items)
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Folder 6.114
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Silas Deane Correspondence in other CHS collections: Agreement with Sieur Du Coudray from Williams Papers.
11 Sept. 1776
(2 items)
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Folder 6.115
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Transcriptions and translations of documents in English and French repositories - source unknown.
1776 - 1785
(12 items)
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Folder 6.116
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Silas Deane Correspondence in other CHS collections: Silas Deane to John Hancock, found in Vol.- 2 CHS Collections
Sept. 14, 1778
(2 items)
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Series 2: Writings: 1772 - 1786
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1772 - 1786
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44 folders
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DEANS/1789 -- VII
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Series consists of diary and journal entries, memoires, essays, personal notes, petitions, proposals and seeches.
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Folder 7.1
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"Proposals"
Aug. 1772
(6 items)
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Folder 7.2
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"Silas Deane on Relief for Boston" (printed in
Connecticut Courant).
1774
(2 items)
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Folder 7.3
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"List of Delegates at Philadelphia."
Sept. 1774
(1 item)
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Folder 7.4
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"Petition of His Majesty."
Oct. 1774
(3 items)
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Folder 7.5
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"Resolves Proposed 1774."
1774
(3 items)
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Folder 7.6
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"A Plan for Making Discoveries, Purchases and Settlements on the Western Lands within the Limits of the Connecticut Charter" (photocopy).
1774
(1 Volume)
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Folder 7.7
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Diary of Transactions in Congress, (fragments).
1 - 6 Oct. 1774
(2 Volumes)
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Folder 7.8
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Circular letter from Lord Dartmouth.
3 March 1775
(1 item)
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Folder 7.9
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Petition General Assembly New Haven.
March 1775
(1 item)
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Folder 7.10
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Petition to King (incomplete).
March 1775
(1 item)
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Folder 7.11
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Proposals for a confederation of the Colonies.
July 1775?
(1 item)
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Folder 7.12
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Edict of Governor of Hispaniola.
16 Oct. 1775
(1 item)
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Folder 7.13
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Extract minutes Congress: Resolution of the Appointment of Committee of Congress - written by Charles Thomson.
(1 item)
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Folder 7.14
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Articles of Agreement Wethersfield Company of Independents.
April 1775
(1 item)
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Folder 7.15
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Proposal to General Assembly (incomplete) re taxing.
1775
(1 item)
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Folder 7.16
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"Essay uncompleted."
1775
(1 item)
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Folder 7.17
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"Memoire Infantry Regiment d'Aunis" March (in French).
1776
(1 Volume)
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Folder 7.18
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"Memoire" re resolution of independence, Congress,
"presented to French minister on declamation of Independence 15 May, 1776".
May 15, 1776
(1 item)
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Folder 7.19
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"Memoire" in relation to the commerce between
Great Britain and Connecticut.
15 Aug. 1776
(1 item)
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Folder 7.20
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On Commence Between Great Britain and America.
[179-?]
(9 items)
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Folder 7.21
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"Observations of Commerce" - note from Sir
Robert Herries.
1783
(11 items)
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Folder 7.22
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Ms. drafts "Observations respecting a navigable
canal from Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence.
Oct. 25, 1785
(4 items)
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Folder 7.23
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"Additional Remarks" re canal Lake Champlain -
drafts.
20 March 1787
(7 items)
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Folder 7.24
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"Additional Remarks" re canal Lake Champlain - St.
Lawrence.
April 1788
(4 items)
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Folder 7.25
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Notes on canal Connecting Lake Champlain to St.
Lawrence River.
[17--?]
(9 items)
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Folder 7.26
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"Memoire" on tobacco.
March 24, 1779
(1 item)
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Folder 7.27
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Drafts "Memoire" on tobacco.
1786
(4 items)
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Folder 7.28
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On the making of salt.
[17--?]
(4 items)
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Folder 7.29
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On the subject of sawing timber.
[17--?]
(2 items)
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Folder 7.30
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Descriptions of Mills or Explanation of Droughts.
[17--?]
(1 item)
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Folder 7.31
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Note on history of fruit and vegetable culture in
Britain.
[17--?]
(1 item)
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Folder 7.32
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Essay: Justification U.S. seeking independence.
[17--?]
(3 items)
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Folder 7.33
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Observations on Gen. Gage's account of the affair at Lexington.
[17--?]
(1 item)
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Folder 7.34
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Essay on the policy of France toward the American colonies in the Revolutionary Era.
[17--?]
(6 items)
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Folder 7.35
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Notes and Statistics on Colonial trade with Great Britain.
[17--?]
(2 items)
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Folder 7.36
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On post-revolutionary government in U.S.
[17--?]
(4 items)
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Folder 7.37
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Essay in form of letter re. post-revolutionary settlement and trade with Britain.
[17--?]
(15 items)
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Folder 7.38
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Draft "Memoire" post-war commerce U.S. and Britain.
[17--?]
(12 items)
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Folder 7.39
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"Loose and General Thoughts and Observations" on economy post-war U.S. and Britain.
[17--?]
(12 items)
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Folder 7.40
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Notes and statistics on trade Great Britain and
U.S.
[17--?]
(8 items)
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Folder 7.41
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Drafts essay on post-war economic conditions
Canada.
[17--?]
(8 items)
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Folder 7.42
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"Chapter lst The Dignity of the Subject."
[17--?]
(4 items)
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Folder 7.43
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Unidentified fragments, n.d. (letter from
"Concord" with acrostic poems re Israel King)
(Calculation compound interest) (note on
inhabitants of Sheffield, 1615).
[17--?]
(6 items)
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Folder 7.44
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Arthur Lee's Diaries.
1777 - 1779
(6 volumes)
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Series 3: Business and Legal Papers: 1753 - 1788
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1753 - 1788
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19 folders
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| Location: | |
DEANS/1789 -- 8
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Series consists of Business and legal papers relating, for the most part, to shipping and shipping interests, particularly regarding contracts with the British Government over the supply of spar masts from the North American colonies.
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Folder 8.1
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Mss receipts and notes.
1753 - 1776
(5 items)
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Folder 8.2
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Contracts for ships masts and spars with France and Spain.
1775 - 1776
(12 items)
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Folder 8.3
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Contracts for ships masts and spars with France and Spain.
1778
(4 items)
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Folder 8.4
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Contracts for ships masts and spars with France and Spain.
1779 - 1780
(3 items)
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Folder 8.5
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Contracts masts British government.
1755
(4 items)
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Folder 8.6
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Contracts masts British government J. Ingersoll).
1760
(3 items)
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Folder 8.7
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Contracts masts American government.
1775, 1776, 1780
(5 items)
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Folder 8.8
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Specifications, estimates, records wood cut for masts.
[178-?]
(3 items)
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Folder 8.9
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Memos, receipts Gerard, Vergennes - Franey (gold box) Grand.
[178-?]
(4 items)
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Folder 8.10
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Deeds: 1765 (land Colchester), 1779 (Ohio territory); copy contract for building of 3 story brick house, no place, no date.
1765 & 1779
(3 items)
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Folder 8.11
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Elizabeth Deane to "Sammy" (Webb?) n.d. re sale carriage
phaeton).
[17--?]
(1 item)
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Folder 8.12
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Orders on behalf Josiah Buck endorsed by Jesse Deane, 1784, 1786; claims on estate J. Buck due J. Deane, 1799.
1784 & 1786
(5 items)
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Folder 8.13
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Correspendence family and business Simeon Deane.
1775 - 1781
(5 items)
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Folder 8.14
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Cash book Simeon Deane, 1776; receipt Simeon Deane to Barnabas Deane 1777; account of sale of cloth for Simeon Deane, 1785.
1776, 1777 & 1781
(3 items)
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Folder 8.15
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Journal of the most material transactions relating to the Ship Soucy from the time of her arrival in Virginia until she was destroyed in the Invasion of Portsmouth.
1779, Sept 1.
(1 Volume)
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Folder 8.16
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Mss. map of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va.
1779
(1 item)
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Folder 8.17
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Plan of Pensacola Powder House.
[179-?]
(1 item)
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Folder 8.18
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List of papers left with Simeon Deane, Williamsburg.
May 29, 1780
(1 item)
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Folder 8.19
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Inventory of the estate of Simeon Deane, Dec. 1788; deposition re will of Simeon Deane.
1788
(2 items)
See Box 11, Folder 12
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Series 4: Accounts: 1765 - 1781
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| Date: | |
1765 - 1781
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26 folders
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DEANS/1789 -- 9, 10 & Oversize Box (OB) 1
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Series Consists of accounts concerning Dean's returnable expenditure incurred whilst in France, England and the Low Countries, as well as accounts held with Jean Chartles DeBay, Haller Geradot, Ferdinand Grand, Nicholas LaFarque and Jonathan William.
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Folder 9.1
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Labels on packages of documents when received.
[17--?]
(2 items)
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Folder 9.2
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Silas Deane's Summary of expenses while in Philadelphia on return from France; and receipts.
1778-80
(26 items)
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Folder 9.3
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Silas Deane's expenses and receipts.
1765-1777
(7 items)
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Folder 9.4
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Silas Deane's expenses in France and bill of goods
1778
(4 items)
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Folder 9.5
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Silas Deane's expenses in France and America
1779
(5 items)
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Folder 9.6
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Silas Deane's expenses in France
1780
(33 items)
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Folder 9.7
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Silas Deane's expenses in France
1781
(17 items)
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Folder 9.8
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Silas Deane's expenses in France and Ghent
1781
(21 items)
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Folder 9.9
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Silas Deane's expenses in Ghent
1781
(39 items)
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Folder 9.10
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Silas Deane's expenses in France and England
1783
(11 items)
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Folder 9.11
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Silas Deane's expenses
[17--?]
(16 items)
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Folder 9.12
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Accounts Edward Bancroft
Feb. 1778 - Aug. 1779
(2 items)
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Folder 9.13
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Account Samuel Beale
[17--?]
(1 item)
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Folder 9.14
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Accounts Le Roy de Chaumont
1777, 1778, 1780 & 1786
(5 items)
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Folder 9.15
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Accounts Jean Charles De Bay
1781-82
(1 item)
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Folder 9.16
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Accounts Haller Geradot - Co.
1776-1778
(8 items)
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Folder 9.17
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Accounts Ferdinand Grand
1777 & 1778
(7 items)
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Folder 9.18
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Accounts Nicholas LaFarque
1777-81
(15 items)
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Folder 9.19
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Accounts Robert Morris
1779
(1 item)
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Folder 9.20
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Accounts Isaac Moses
1778-79
(4 items)
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Folder 9.21
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Accounts Roche and Bromfield
1777-79
(17 items)
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Folder 9.22
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Accounts Jonathan William
1777-80
(2 items)
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Folder 9.23
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Receipts money paid to French officers going to America, 1776-77 (includes Demauroy commission as Major-General, 1776; note from Pulaski)
1776 - 1777
(8 items)
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Folder 9.24
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Receipts money paid to American officers in France
1776-78
(19 items)
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Folder 10.25
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Account book of Franklin, Deane and Adams.
Dec. 1776 - June 1778
(1 Volume)
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Folder 10.26
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Summary of account of money owed by Congress to Silas
Deane (compiled by Silas Deane).
1776 - 1780
(10 items)
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Folder OB1.1
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Writings: drafts essay on terms peace settlement Britain and America
[17--?]
(10 items)
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Folder OB1.2
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Writings: articles of agreement of a privateer, (author unknown)
1740
(1 item)
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Folder OB1.5
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Correspondence: convention landholders, merchants and inhabitants of Connecticut
Sept. 10, 1770
(1 item)
See also Box 1, Folder 20
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Folder OB1.6
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Correspondence: 14 Dec. 1775 Silas Deane from G. Saltonstall
14 Dec. 1775
(1 item)
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Folder OB1.7
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Correspondence
11 Aug. 1776, 12 Sept. 1776
(2 items)
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Folder OB1.8
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Correspondence
1776
(2 items (1 Volume))
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Folder OB1.9
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Writings: "General State of my Demand on the United States"
29 May 1780
(1 item)
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Folder OB1.10
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13 Jan. 1776 Silas Deane to ED.; 23 Jan. 8 Feb. 1776 from
G. Saltonstall: - March Farewell to ED.
1776
(4 items)
See also Box 1, Folder 25
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Folder OB1.13
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Correspondence: (Jonathan Trumbull); Letter from Jonathan Trumbull (missing)
15 May & 1 Nov. 1782
(5 items)
See also Box 3, Folder 83
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Folder OB1.14
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Correspondence: (Thomas Barclay with remarks on accounts).
June 1784 - June 1785
(5 items)
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Series 5: Memorials to congress: 1835
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1835
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54 folders
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DEANS/1789 -- Oversize Box (OB) 2 & Oversize Box (OB) 3
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Series consists of documents supporting the claims of the heirs of Silas Deane from the United states Government, being a Memorial to Congress ("Silas Deane's Accounts"
title on-spine original binding) sub-heading: "No. 6037 Accounts and Documents
accompanying the memorial of the Heirs at law of Silas Deane to the Congress of the United States, presented to the House of Representatives on the 12th of January 1835."
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Folder OB2.1
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Correspondence to James H. Trumbull and Charles J. Hoadley re transmission of Memorial from the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury 1863, 1875. Table of contents of Memorial appended to letter of April 20, 1875.
1863 & 1875
(6 items)
See also Box 2, Folder 54
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Folder OB2.2
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Printed copies Memorial of the Heirs of Silas Deane, Jan. 10, 1835.
3. Printed Reports Senate of the United States: 1841, 1842:
1835
(4 items)
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Folder OB2.3
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Two Printed Reports of Senate of the United States: 1. 26th Congress 2nd Session; 2. 27th Congress 2nd Session.
1841 - 1842
(2 volumes)
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Folder OB2.4
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Fly leaves from "Silas Deane's Accounts"; copy pencilled note inside back cover
1835
(3 items)
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Folder OB2.5
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Copy of Commission of Captain granted by the king to
Sieur Augustin Francois L'Epine Des-Epiniers. 15 Nov.
1776 (in French); found in these papers - not part of
the Memorial; marked "A" on document and on Table of
Contents
1835
(1 item)
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Folder OB2.6
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No. 1. Account United States against Silas Deane, Esq.
As settled by Mr. Barclay (copied from the books of the Treasury Department).
1777-1787
(1 Volume)
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Folder OB2.7
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No. 2. Account against Mssrs. Delaps as settled by Mr. Barclay and attested by Register 1834-35. (This and the following copied from the books at the Treasury Dept.)
1834 - 1835
(2 items (1 Volume))
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Folder OB2.8
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No. 3. Account of Mon. Le Ray Chaumont as settled by Mr. Barclay
June 14, 1784
(2 items (1 Volume))
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Folder OB2.9
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No. 4. Caron de Beaumarchais account for military supplies and purchased by Silas Deane for the U. States.
1777-1793
(2 items (1 Volume))
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Folder OB2.10
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No. 5a. Accounts of Solieur, the Banker; b. Particulars of Grand's charge of 26,713 livres; C. Joint account of Franklin and Deane
1777-1785
(2 items (1 Volume))
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Folder OB2.11
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No. 6a. Report of the Mr. Lee's Committee, Nov. 1783
sanctioning allowance of 5% commission on purchases etc.: b. Correspondence of Committee and Robert Morris; C. Copy of contract with Secret Committee; d. Copy of instructions to Silas Deane;
e. Other documents accompanying Mr. Lee's report
1783
(7 items)
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Folder OB2.12
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No. 7. Mr. Deane's accounts with Mr. Barclay's
observations upon them as transmitted to Robert Morris,
for his instructions, as laid before Congress by Mr.
Morris; Deane's letter to Barclay 23 March 1782;
Barclay's letter to Morris 8 June 1784; Morris' letter to Congress 30 Sept. 1784
1782 - 1784
(7 items)
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Folder OB2.13
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No. 8. Mr. Deane's accounts and accounts current stated by himself (Copies in part of
those transmitted by Barclay to Morris)
1776-1778
(10 items)
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Folder OB2.14
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No. 9. Abstracts of daily expenses
1776-1781
(16 items)
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Folder OB2.15
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No. 10. Accounts of household expenses; household furniture left with Dr.
Franklin; expenses of couriers to Versailles; expense of postage. None of
which were credited to Mr. Deane in Settlement.
1776-1778
(4 items)
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Folder OB2.16
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No. 11a Original agreement with Baron de Kalb and Viscount de Mauroy - showing that the two
bills on Delaps charged to Mr. Deane were drawn in payment of said contracts. llb. Original agreement with Viscomte de Mauroy.
1776
(1 item)
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Folder OB2.17
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Original agreement with Lafayette
1776
(1 item)
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Folder OB2.18
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Photocopies Lafayette, de Mauroy. and de Kalb agreements; 2 off print articles re the agreement; 2 labels
[179-]
(3 items)
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Folder OB3.19
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Correspondence Robert Morris to Silas Deane
March 1, 10, 30, 1776
(4 items)
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Folder OB3.20
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Correspondence Robert Morris to Silas Deane
June 5, 6 1776
(3 items)
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Folder OB3.21
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Correspondence Robert Morris to Silas Deane No. 12 August 11, 1776; Sept. 12,
1776; label from bound volume: "re trade in indigo and rice in the Delaps account"
1776
(5 items)
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Folder OB3.22
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Correspondence Robert Morris to Silas Deane
Oct. 4, Dec. 4, 1776
(3 items)
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Folder OB3.23
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Correspondence Robert Morris to Thomas Morris Jan. 31, 1777
(signed copy), to John Ross Jan. 31, 1777 (signed copy), to Commissioners Franklin, Deane, and Lee Feb. 18, 1777, to Silas Deane Feb. 27, 1777
1777
(5 items)
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Folder OB3.24
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Correspondence Robert Morris to Silas Deane
June 29, 1777
(4 items)
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Folder OB3.25
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Correspondence Robert Morris from Lesieur Chaumont, Jan. 7,
1777, to Thomas Bromfield, May 20, 1777 (copy not
signed)
1777
(2 items)
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Folder OB3.26
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Correspondence Robert Morris to Silas Deane
June 7, 1871
(1 item)
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Folder OB3.27
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No. 13 signed copies Ls Silas Deane to Robert Morris
1776 - 1783
(10 items)
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Folder OB3.28
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No. 14 AlS B. Franklin to Silas Deane
1776 - 1783
(4 items)
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Folder OB3.29
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No. 15 (copies from Silas Deane's Letterbook) Silas Deane to
Benjamin Franklin
1782
(8 items)
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Folder OB3.30
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No. 16 (copies from-Silas Deane's Letterbooks) Silas Deane to
Thomas Barclay
1782 - 1783
(11 items)
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Folder OB3.31
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No. 17 (copies from Silas Deane's Letterbooks) Silas Deane to John
Jay
1782 - 1783
(3 items)
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Folder OB3.32
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No. 18 ALsS Caron De Beaumarchais to Silas Deane
1776-1778
(13 items)
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Folder OB3.33
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No. 18a Translations AlsS C. De Beaumarchais to Silas Deane
1776-1778
(12 items)
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Folder OB3.34
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No. 19 Marine committee Continental Congress to Silas Deane
directing him to procure and fit out a naval force
Nov. 7, 1775; ALS from Stephen Hopkins, Chairman,
to Silas Deane Nov. 16, 1775
1775
(2 items)
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Folder OB3.35
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No. 19a An Estimate for the Expense of a Ship of War
with the original rough draft of Rules and Regulations
for the government of the Navy.
Oct. 1775
(3 items)
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Folder OB3.36
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No. 20. Committee of Congress for Secret Correspondence
to Silas Deane appointment as agent to France.
March 2, 1776
(1 item)
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Folder OB3.37
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No. 20a Continental Congress appointment Benjamin
Franklin, Silas Deane and Arthur Lee to Court of
France. (signed) John Hancock.
Oct. 23, 1776
(1 item)
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Folder OB3.38
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No. 21 (copies from Vol. I Sparks Diplomatic Correspondence) Benjamin Franklin to President of Congress March 21, 1778; Compte de Vergennes to President of Congress (translation) March 25, 1778; Compte de Vergennes to Silas Deane March 26, 1778.
1778
(3 items)
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Folder OB3.39
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No. 22a ALS Silas Deane to Carmichael (copy
by Silas Deane sent to Barclay).
June 30, 1784
(1 item)
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Folder OB3.40
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No. 22b ALS Thomas Barclay to Silas Deane.
July 7, 1784
(1 item)
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Folder OB3.41
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No. 22c - d (copy) Silas Deane to Baldwin, the Printer; ALS H. Baldwin to Silas Deane.
1783
(2 items)
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Folder OB3.42
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No. 22e (copy by Deane) ALS Silas Deane to J. Debrett.
Aug. 8, 1783
(1 item)
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Folder OB3.43
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No. 22 American Mercury Mon. re. death
of Silas Deane.
Dec. 28, 1789
(1 item)
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Folder OB3.44
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No. 22f "Testimony showing the weakness and
imbecility in body and mind of Jesse Deane, only
son of Silas Deane."
Dec. 5, 1835
(5 items)
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Folder OB3.45
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No. 23 Affidavit Horatio Alden.
Feb. 29, 1836
(3 items)
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Folder OB3.46
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Mss draft Memorial to Congress (by
Samuel Burche?).
[1835?]
(3 volumes)
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Folder OB3.47
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Mss copy Memorial to Congress; original from which
Memorial printed by Blair and Gives.
Jan. 1835
(29 items)
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Folder OB3.48
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Mss draft with corrections of Silas Deane's
accounts prepared for Congress by the Fifth Auditor.
1838 - 1842
(9 items)
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Folder OB3.49
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Mss copy statement of the accounts of Silas Deane.
[179-?]
(1 volume)
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Folder OB3.50
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Mss copy "A list of vouchers supporting the claim of Silas Deane's heirs on the United States."
1842
(1 Volume)
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Folder OB3.51
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Mss corrections of Mr. Barclay's statement of Mr.
Deane's accounts.
[1835?]
(2 items)
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Folder OB3.52
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Ms copy contract John Alsop Francis Lewis and Philip Livingston, - and Silas Deane and Robert Morris and the Committee of Secrecy 1775; Certified copy 1842.
1775
(1 item)
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Folder OB3.53
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Printed copy memorial with ms note "Drawn up by
Samuel Hurons?) agent for the claimants".
[17--?]
(1 Volume)
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Folder OB3.54
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Printed copy H.R. No. 952 Silas Deane; Senate 201 1841.
1842
(1 Volume)
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Series 6: Barnabas Deane: 1768 - 1792
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1768 - 1792
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12 folders
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DEANS/1789 -- 11
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Series consists of the correspondence of Barnabas Deane, Silas' brother, as well as a small number of business and legal papers. Correspondents include John Hancock and Jeremiah Wadsworth.
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Folder 11.1
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Correspondence
1768 - 1775
(4 items)
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Folder 11.2
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Correspondence (John Hancock; Jeremiah Wadsworth)
2 Nov. 1776 - 7 June 1776
(10 items)
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Folder 11.3
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Correspondence (John Hancock)
1 June 1776 - 15 Nov. 1777
(10 items)
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Folder 11.4
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Correspondence
19 Nov. 1777 - 27 Oct. 1780
(9 items)
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Folder 11.5
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Correspondence (B. Tallmadge)
19 Feb. 1781 - 13 May 1783
(12 items)
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Folder 11.6
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Correspondence (Jeremiah Wadsworth).
25 July 1783 - 14 Feb. 1785
(10 items)
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Folder 11.7
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Correspondence
30 June 1785 - 18 June 1789
(10 items)
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Folder 11.8
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Correspondence.
1790 - 1815
(13 items)
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Folder 11.9
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Ship Trumbull Papers.
1776 - 1792
(45 items)
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Folder 11.10
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Misc. business and legal papers.
1776 - 1792
(95 items)
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Folder 11.11
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Code books.
1780
(2 items (volumes))
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Folder 11.12
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Copy order of limitation estate Simeon Deane; copy General Account and settlement estate Barnabas Deane. Jeremiah Wadsworth, Executor.
22 Feb. 1792
(4 items)
See Box 8, Folder 9
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Access Restrictions
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There are no restrictions on access to the collection.
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Use Restrictions
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Use of the material requires compliance with the Connecticut Historical Society's
Library Regulations.
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Preferred Citation
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"Item, Collection Title (Collection Code -- box #. Folder #), at the Connecticut
Historical Society".
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Processing Details
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EAD instance was created by OCR of a paper original (created by Anne Willard in 1989) and marked up in XML using NoteTab Pro. Tansformation to HTML was effected through application of XSL (WD19981216) using James Clark's processor, XT.
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Custodial History
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Collection was deposited in late 19th and early 20th century by Israel Alden Thomas of Norwich, CT, and the U.S. Treasury Department as a gift.
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Accruals
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The collection is open, but additional material is not expected.
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