only a few short hours later he was dead. This paper will show that of the three theories for the death of Silas Deane, natural, suicide, and murder, that the latter now seems to be the most probable one.
             There are some who believe that Deane's death was a natural one. The Captain aboard the ship had been with Deane that day and was the one who had sent him to bed; he stated that Deane had "complain'd of a dizziness in his head, and an oppression at his stomach"(XVIII). Being that the captain was the person who was with Deane when he suddenly started to feel terribly ill there wouldn't be any suspicion in his mind that Deane's
             sudden illness might have been caused by anyone else. Another fact that would affect the captains judgment would be that there was no visible sign of viole
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