Career
He is buried in or near Montrose, Iowa. According to historian Barbara MacLeish, who is researching a book on Mead, he joined the 4th Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel John Durkee of Norwich, Connecticut in 1776 or 1777.
lieutenant is not entirely clear if he was a former slave.
He served at Valley Forge from December 1777 through June 1778, where he contracted smallpox, spending two months in a Pennsylvania hospital. lieutenant is not known why he migrated to Iowa.
While his exact grave location is unknown, a marker stands at the Montrose Cemetery.
