Background
Samuel Deane was born on July 10, 1733 in Dedham, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Samuel and Rachel (Dwight) Deane. From 1732 to 1745 his father was a blacksmith and keeper of the inn in Dedham.
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Samuel Deane was born on July 10, 1733 in Dedham, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Samuel and Rachel (Dwight) Deane. From 1732 to 1745 his father was a blacksmith and keeper of the inn in Dedham.
Samuel was educated at Harvard College, graduating in 1760.
He was an excellent scholar, fond of the classics, and had some ability as a poet. He contributed an English poem of twelve six-line verses to a collection of congratulatory addresses to George III on his accession to the throne, included with thirty others in a small volume, Pietas et Gratulatio Collegii Cantabrigiensis apud Novanglos, Bostoni, Massachwsettsium (1761).
From Harvard College he received the degree of Master of Arts and from Brown University the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1790.
Deane was tutor and librarian at the College.
In 1764 he was called to the first parish in Portland (Maine), then included in the Town of Falmouth, as a colleague of its pastor, Rev. Thomas Smith, and was ordained October 17, 1764. He remained connected with the church as colleague and pastor for fifty years.
In October 1775 a British fleet bombarded and burned the larger part of the village of Portland. The church was hit though not seriously damaged, but its members became scattered, poverty-stricken, and discontented as a result of the war.
In November Deane moved to a farm in Gorham, built a house at “Pitchwood Hill, ” and lived there some six years. During this period, though he went frequently to Portland to preach, he was much engaged in farming operations and experiments, and probably in the preparation of his best-known work, announced in 1787 and published in 1790 with the title, The New England Farmer or Georgical Dictionary, Containing a Compendious Account of the Ways and Methods in which the Most Important Art of Husbandry in all its Various Branches is or may be Practiced to the Greatest Advantage in this Country. A second edition was printed at Worcester in 1797 and a revised edition was printed much later by Fessenden.
This encyclopedic work, the first of the kind in this country, contains the results of his own experience and reveals wide acquaintance with the observations and experimental work of other American authors.
Deane also published an oration, July 4, 1793, several sermons, short verses in periodicals, and a long poem, “Pitchwood Hill, ” written in hexameters and published without his consent in the Cumberland Gazette, March 5, 1795, and later in pamphlet form. Returning to Portland, in March 1782, he remained there till his death; until 1795 as the colleague of the Rev. Thomas Smith who died in that year, and then as pastor of the church.
In 1809 the Rev. Mr. Nichols was chosen his colleague.
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In the sharp religious controversies of that day Deane occupied a middle ground between the strict Calvinists and the Unitarians. He denied Calvin’s views of the Trinity and the Atonement, nor did he fully accord with the views of the Unitarians. His catholicity of spirit is indicated by the fact that while firm in his own convictions he was in friendly relation with the representatives of both factions.
Deane was of commanding presence, tall, erect, and portly, with grave and dignified carriage and deportment and keen wit.
On April 3, 1776 Deane married Eunice Pearson, who died October 14, 1812, aged eighty-five. They had no children.