General Washington issued a general order appointing Aaron Burr Aide-du-Camp (confidential personal assistant) to General Israel Putnam.

Burr remained at Putnam’s side until January 1777 when he was named lieutenant colonel of Col. William Malcolm’s Additional Continental Regiment.

Source:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-05-02-0044

Prominent New York City Loyalist and the last colonial Mayor of New York City, David Mathews, was arrested for his alleged involvement in the “Hickey Plot,” a conspiracy to assassinate General George Washington. The devious plot was conceived in Corbie’s Tavern, near Washington’s residence. All those involved were sworn to secrecy.After being taken into custody in Brooklyn, he was transported to Connecticut, where he was first imprisoned in Hartford before later being placed under house arrest in Litchfield.

Mathews ultimately escaped from his confinement in Litchfield in December 1776 and successfully made his way back to British-occupied New York City, where he resumed service as the British-appointed mayor until 1783.

The Matthews Muliner Playground in the Bronx bears David Mathews’s name in part. The official New York City Department of Parks & Recreation website description characterizes Mathews as “a thief, an embezzler, and a spendthrift.”

Sources:

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/profligate-abandoned-and-dissipated-new-york-citys-last-colonial-mayor

https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2019/7/3/the-missing-common-council-records-of-the-revolutionary-war

https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/matthews-muliner-playground