Silas Deane
Merchant and former Delegate to the Continental Congress of the Thirteen ColoniesWikipedia
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Oct 2, 2026
speaker_0HOST
They signed the official copy on August 2nd, and things kept moving along.
speaker_0HOST
At the end of September, Congress appointed someone to represent the United States abroad, along with Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane.
speaker_0HOST
But do you remember him being there when we talked about the Benjamin Franklin episodes? Nope.
speaker_0HOST
That's because he declined.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he funnels it through a trading business.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And in America, we have working with him is Connecticut merchant Silas Deane and Thomas Morris, the half brother of Robert Morris, uh, who was the-- helped finance the revolution.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so who would have thought that Spain was fi-- And this was so secret that some of the original histories of the revolution doesn't even mention it.
Bill FedererSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But then they're like, "Oh, look, they're translating the documents.
Tim BartonGUEST
And John, again, in this letter to Abigail, September 16, 1774, he says, "Abigail," when he first showed up, the Reverend Jacob Duché, he, he began reading to us prayers from the Book of Common Prayer, uh, which was the Anglican prayer book.
Tim BartonGUEST
He says, "But then he broke out in extemporaneous prayer that for, for at least 10 minutes, it was so moving, it, it, it, it moved in the bosom of every man." One of the guys who was there, Silas Deane, said that this extemporaneous prayer was so moving that even the Quakers had tears running down their cheeks.
Tim BartonGUEST
Like, God was moving, and then they, they decide that after this prayer, that, that they should read the Bible.
Tim BartonGUEST
Well, in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, there's also chapters assigned for the day, and there's a Psalm of the day.
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Tim BartonGUEST
Like we're partners.
Tim BartonGUEST
You stay with me." And, and so Franklin literally invites Whitefield to live with him when he comes to town.
Tim BartonGUEST
One of the things that is very well known about Whitefield early on is he was not, uh, invited to preach in churches because he was a Methodist, and every Northern colony had a different state-established religion, if they did, and most of them did.
Tim BartonGUEST
And so he wasn't invited to preach in local churches 'cause he was the wrong denomination.