I11 this service he continued for two years, acting as a volunteer guide in many enterprises undertaken to surprise the enemy, who were securely established at Morrisania, and from whence the Refugees under their protection were making continual inroads and depredations upon whig families, whose fathers and sons were engaged in the defence of the country. Sergt. Dean used to relate an account of the attack upon the statue at the Bowling Green, New York, when the people cut off the head, cast it into a wheelbarrow, and after wheeling it about the city, devoted it to be cast into musket balls, in which shape they intended to return it to the enemy, then on Dong Island, ts:e. He further relates that he was also with the troops under Col. Putnam, and during the retreat, when so hotly pursued by the British, and nearly surrounded, he with another soldier hid themselves in the bushes, and afterwards, at night, swam across the Spuvten Deuyvil Creek into Westchester, and thus reached their homes in safety.

As a mark of the trustworthiness and reliable character of Mr. Dean, we give the following order, from Col. Graham, also found in his "revolutionary pocket-book," written in a beautiful style of penmanship, committed to him while a member of Captain Dean's Company of Rangers- --

Wnm. Plains, June 22d, 177S

Sir -- Please 10 deliver the bearer, Mr. John Dean, the two remaining boxes of Cartridges left in your care for the use of my Regt. Morris Graham, Col.