Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

A record in GW’s expense book for this date indicates a payment to “Colo. Meade for the Genls & suite’s &c. dinner at springfeild” (household account book, 11 April 1776–21 Nov. 1780, DLC:GW, ser. 5). The receipt that GW’s aide-de-camp Richard Kidder Meade prepared on this date for the “Tavern bill” at Springfield, N.J., shows expenditures for three dinners, grog, and rum (Revolutionary War Receipt Book, 1776–1780, DLC:GW, ser. 5).

GW’s aide-de-camp Richard Kidder Meade wrote Abraham Skinner, deputy commissary general of prisoners, from headquarters in Morristown on this date: “It is his Excellencys desire that you should remove Mr Nicholas Dean from his present Quarters—to Easton, or any other distant place—& that If you cannot contrive to make him pay for his board since his stay in this neighbourhood, that you would do it yourself” (DLC:GW). The Pennsylvania Evening Post (Philadelphia) for 6 March printed an item under the dateline “CHATHAM [N.J.], Feb. 23” (Wednesday): “Last Sunday night mr. Nicholas Dean, an ensign in one of the Scotch regiments at New York, deserted and came over to our people at Newark.” Dean supplied intelligence on British, German, and Loyalist troops “quartered on Long Island, Staten Island, and in New York.”