Paul Wentworth (counsellor)
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Paul Wentworth was a lawyer and plantation owner in Surinam, a stockbroker in London, a British intelligence agent to Lord North during the American War of Independence, and a politician who sat in th
Before open war between France and Britain, Pierre Beaumarchais was at the center of an arms traffic to support American Insurgents.
The Brandenburg House, a splendid mansion in Dutch style, made out of bricks, overlooking the Thames; drawn by S. Owen, engraved by W. Cooke (1809).
Arthur Lee (diplomat)
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Arthur Lee was an American physician, diplomat, and abolitionist who was born in the British Colony of Virginia. He helped negotiate and signed the 1778 Treaty of Alliance with France, along with Benj
Paul Wentworth (counsellor)
…intelligence agent to Lord North during the American War of Independence, and a politician who sat in the House of Commons briefly. He was friendly with Arthur Lee, Silas Deane, Philip Skene and Benedict Arnold. Wentworth may have been born in Barbados or in New Hampshire. He moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire in…
Portrait by John Trumbull, 1790