Dean to shield him from these annoying questions, saying, "all will be explained when we reach the Colonel's quarters." He did restrain the men from any further unwelcome questions ; and soon after arrived at the aforesaid head quarters in Northcastle. What took place there, and how the Spy was taken from there to another post in Salem, 12 or 15 miles further north, in this county, to prevent a recapture by Delancey's "Rangers," and his subsequent removal from thence to Washington's Headquarters, then at Tappan, in Rockland County, where he was tried and executed, are well known matters of history by this community, and need not be detailed in this connection. Sufficient for this occasion it is to say that when the importance of this arrest, and the magnitude of the interest involved in the defection of Gen. Arnold, became known, Col. Jameson was directed to report the names-of all the men concerned in the capture ; he of course, applied to Sergt. Dean, whom, as we see, he had directed to station the guards of the passes ; and he, forgetting himself, returned only the names of the men he had placed upon that duty; thus it was, as we are credibly informed, that Sergt. John Dean, although intimately connected with a patriotic transaction which had shed so imperishable a halo of glory upon the memory of the actors in it, was not included by name with those whom the Nation has ever since delighted to honor, because of its important bearing upon the liberties of our country, further reference is made to .Sergt. Dean's connection with the capture of Andre in Lieut. Samuel Youngs' statement endorsing the application of the widow Mary Dean for a pension.