Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,693, Samuel W Cate, N.H.
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Service
N.H.

Cate, Samuel W

Number 
S.29693
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27209
Massachusetts

Samuel W Cate
of Salem in the state of Mass.
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Arnold of the Regt commanded
by Col Wingate in the N.H. line for 9 months
Pri 
NH Mil

Inscribed on the roll of Mass at the rate of 30 dollars blank cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of March 1834 and sent to Joseph G Waters, Salem, Mass.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 $90.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1834 $15.00
$105.00

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by George Taylor - Clerk
Book E Vol 2 Page 14
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Saml W Cate
29630

Adm'd 
Private 9 Months
on roll of Capt.
Arnold; Company
Col Wingate Regt

Joseph G Waters
Salem
Mass.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of Massachusetts: County of Sussex

On this eighteenth day of February AD 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Daniel Appleton White, Judge of the Court of Probate for the county of Essex aforesaid now sitting, Samuel Cate a resident of Salem in the County of Essex and state of Massachusetts aged 89 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated:

In 1776 he enlisted at Portsmouth NH for the term of five months in Cap. Arnold's company of militia in the regiment commanded by Col Wingate. He marched with said company to No. 4 now Charlestown, NH and from thence to Lake Champlain & Ticonderoga and was stationed there till his term of enlistment had expired. In 1777 he enlisted again at Portsmouth NH for two months in the company of Captain Merrill of Strathern and marched to Bennington Vermont. IN 1781 he again enlisted at Portsmouth in the company of Captain Joseph Parsons of Rye New Hampshire in the battalion commanded by Major Marston of Deerfield and marched with said company to Number 4 and thence to Fort Ann on Lake Champlain - He was a private soldier during the whole of the service thus performed by him - That at this distance of time and place when & where the
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foregoing services were rendered he is unable to obtain the testimony of his fellow soldiers who were engaged with him in the various services referred to. That to the best of his recollection, his term of service in Captain Arnold's Company was for five months, in Capt. Merrill's company two months and in Capt. Parson's company two months making altogether the term of nine months. The declarant further states that his name was enrolled in the several companies in which he rendered the foregoing services and would refer to the rolls of the New Hampshire militia in support of his declaration.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Samuel W Cate

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

D.A. White - Judge of Probate

We William B Dodge a clergyman residing in Salem aforesaid and Joseph G Waters a magistrate residing in Salem aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel W Cate who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 89 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Wm B Dodge
Jos G Waters

Subscribed and sworn to before D A White - Judge of Probate
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And the said court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that Wm B Dodge who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Salem and that the said Joseph G Waters has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at Salem Mass and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

D.A. White - J of Probate

I Nathaniel Lord Junior, Register of the Court of Probate for the county of Essex aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Smauel Cate for a pension.

SEAL

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighteenth day of February AD 1834.

Nath. Lord Jr.
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22nd Feb 1834
Mass
[illegible]

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Salem, Mass Feb 19th 1834

Dear Sir

At the request of Samuel Cate of this town, a very aged and destitute person I forward to you his application for a pension for services rendered by him in the war of our Revolution. Such a prompt attention to it as may be consistent with your numerous & arduous engagements will much oblige the petitioner.

Through your obt servt
Jospeh G Waters

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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29693
Revy INVALID

File No 29693
Samuel W Cate
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th, '32
Index Vol 9 Page 64
[Arrangement of 1870.]