Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35358, Cato Tredwell, Conn.
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(3-1776)
Service
Conn.
Tredwell, Cato (colored)
Or Treadwell

Number
S35358
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35358
Revy Invalid.

File No. 35, 358
Cato Treadwell
Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 425
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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June 3 – 1901
Frank J. Gustin
Salt Lake City, Utah.
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35358
Cato Treadwell
Mch 13 1818
Huntington Conn – 55
80
Capt Wright
Col Himan Swift
Pri 3 yrs

No Bat
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Frank J. Gustin.
Salt Lake City Utah

P. O. Box 1405.
Salt Lake City, Utah, May 27, 1901
 Hon. H. Clay Evans,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: - 

Mr. Isaac L. Manning, an old negro, has called upon me and asked me to investigate the matter of his father’s pension, and I trust that it will not be too much trouble for you to give me what information you have in relation to it.
It seems as if Cato Tredwell, an old negro, was a soldier and served in the Revolutionary War; that he was drawing the sum of $96.00 a year pension; that he enlisted from Connecticut, and that he had a wife who survived him some 12 years and who never made application for the pension, or at least and in any event she never received any money.  This Isaac Manning is very old and I am unable to obtain further date from him in relation to the matter, however, I have written some letters to some of his relatives from whom I hope to hear further.  However, I deem it that your records will be sufficient to give us the required information.
Kindly let me know what, if anything, they show in relation to the matter.

Very respectfully yours,

[signed] Frank J. Gustin

[below is a round stamp with the following:
U S Pension Office May 31 1901
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Ann Arbor. Mich. July. 25. 1884

Wm W. Dudly.
Sir
In the Claim of Isaac Lewis Treadwell Pension of Cato Treadwell Who Was. A. Soldier in The War of 1812. Who Died At Crumbell. Connicute. March. 5 – 1849.
Eliza Treadwell his Wife Died May the. 15. 1861. At. Keokuk. Iowa. he Drew. A. Pension up To his Death his Wife Servived him. 12. years And did not Draw
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Eny Pension Duren The Twelve years had 8. Children Duren ther Marrage, 3. boys Isaac L. Treadwell Age. 69. Isrell Treadwell. dead  Peter Treadwell Age. 61. Died. febuary. 1883. At. Milford. Mich. okland. 60 five girls All Died Isaac L. Treadwell The only Serviving Are at [illegible] Will you Please To Informe me What is to be Done In the Clame you have the Coppy of the Papper of Atty and the Acts of the War. 1812.
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An Early {illegible}
Respectifully yours
Samuel B. Thompson
Atty
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8501
Connecticut
Cato Treadwell

of Fairfield County in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Swift, of the Connecticut line, for the term of three years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23d of March 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th of March 1819 and sent to Saml W Johnson Esqr [illegible] Stratford Fairfield Coy Connet.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1819, 11 9/31 & 4/31 mo  	 
                                                                 $91.35
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4th Sept 1819.	$48.~
								$139.35
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

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1884 Augt 4  S. B Thompson that no one can claim the pension to which the widow may have been entitled after her death

1884 Augt 13.  S. B Thompson that no person can claim the pension to which a widow may have been entitled, after her death
Prior 

Date of death not [illegible]
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(Black man)
Cato Treadwell’s Affidavit – Private
March 23d 1818.
Swift, Connect. Regt
1780 – 3 Years
V
Adm.

The Certificate of the [a water stain and apparent tear to the paper obscure the rest of this statement]
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State of Connecticut Stratford in the County of Fairfield ss
I Cato Treadwell of Huntington in said County before the Honble Samuel Wm Johnson Judge of the County Court for said County do under oath declare that I am now and ever have been a resident citizen of the United States of America, and am a free negro man _ that I was born & brought up in said County & am now fifty five years old _ that in the year A.D. 1780 I enlisted for three years as a private soldier in the company commanded by Captain Wright ( I think his name was Joseph Allen Wright) in the Regiment commanded by Col. Heman Swift of Cornwall in said State, in the Connecticut Line and upon the Continental establishment in the late revolutionary army _ and that in the fall of the year 1780 I joined said Regiment at the Highlands near West-point, and served faithfully in said Regiment from that time vis. the fall of the year 1780 until the close of the said Revolutionary war in 1783 and was in actual service ^as a private soldier in sd Regiment ^ during that whole period _ that the latter part of the period aforesd Capt. Peter Robinson commanded said company _ and that at the close of sd war I was discharged aat New Windsor not many miles from West-point and received a regular discharge in writing _ which was, about two years afterwards, destroyed with the house in which I dwelt, by fire. that I am extremely poor, and by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in great need of assistance from my country for support.
[signed with an X His mark] Cato Treadwell
Dated at Stratford aforesd. this 23rd day of March AD. 1818.
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State of Connecticut ss Stratford in the County of Fairfield March 23rd AD. 1818.
then personally came Cato Treadwell the negro man within named, and, being duly sworn, made oath to the truth of facts stated in the within declaration by him subscribed, 
[signed] Sa, W Johnson Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield

State of Connecticut ss Stratford in Fairfield County
I Samuel W Johnson Judge of the County Court for Fairfield County do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Cato Treadwell above described served in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy as stated in his foregoing Declaration. ^ & is in reduced circumstances & in need of assistance from his country for support.
In testimony whereof I have subscribed the same and affixed the seal of said Court this 6th day of May 1818
[signed] Sam W Johnson
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District & State of Connecticut ss Stratford May 6th AD. 1818. I Samuel Fayerweather of Weston in the County of Fairfield & State aforesaid, do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Cato Treadwell of Huntington in said County the free negro man named in the foregoing declaration, that I knew him well in the army in the late revolutionary war, and have known him ever since _ that in the year AD. 1780 he enlisted as a private soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Wright in the Regiment commanded by Col. Heman Swift, in the 2nd Brigade in the Connecticut line upon the Continental establishment and that he served faithfully in said Regiment for three years & [blurred out] of said revolutionary war, when he was [blurred out] discharged _ that he was a good soldier, and was [blurred] -lled in the army by the name of Cato Freeman & I think it probably that he was by that name entered on the muster roll, but I then knew his name was Cato Treadwell _ that he is extremely poor, and from his reduced circumstances, is in need of assistance from his country for support, and has always been a resident citizen of the United States and an inhabitant of said County of Fairfield and that the said company in which he enlisted as aforesd. was afterwards commanded by Capt. Peter Robinson whom I well knew in sd. army _ & that I was in service during the war in the first brigade in the Connecticut line that is from March 1st AD 1777 to the close of the war in June 1783.
[signed] Saml. Fayerweather

State of Connecticut ss Stratford in Fairfield County On the 6th day of May 1818 Personally came before me the above named Samuel Fayerweather and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition. 
[signed] Sam W Johnson Judge of Fairfield County Court
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Cato Tredwell
(Es??)
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At a County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 13th day of June, 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
Personally appeared, in open Court, Cato Treadwell a resident in the town of Huntington in the County of Fairfield, in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) viz. 
I own one old log-house standing on land belonging to Israel Hawley in said Huntington _ 1 table _ 1 plane chest _ 6 old chairs _ 2 hammers_ 1 shoved & tongs _ 2 tin pails _ 1 Porrige pot _ 1 pr steelyards_ one old chest _ 1 silver watch _ 1 sad iron _ 1 pr andirons _ 1 bake-kettle _ 8 earthen places _ 6 spoons _ 1 umbrella _ sundry small articles consisting of broken crockery & furniture _ 2 cider barrels 1 half barrel _ one ax _ & one adz.
[signed] Cato Tredwell
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 District and State of Connecticut, ss.
Be it remembered, that in the County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield in the District and State aforesaid, on the 13th day of June, 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared, in open Court, Cato Tredwell aged 57 years  resident in the town of Huntington in the County of Fairfield, in said State, and being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath declared that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: 
I was enlisted about the year 1780 according to my best recollection by Capt. Gray at Stratford in said County of Fairfield, and from thence went onto the highlands near West-point, and was enrolled in Capt. Wright’s company in the Regiment commanded by Col: Swift, and continued my faithful service in said Regiment until the close of the war comprised of three years, when I was honorable discharged and not having my discharge in consequence of the [hole in paper] destroyed by fire soon after the war, with [hole in paper] my house being burnt up, and for the parti [hole in paper] relating to my service, reference may be [hole in paper] declaration at the Secretary of War’s office [hole in paper] day of March 1818. –
That the original declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 14th of March, 1818, was dated the 23d day of March 1818 that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 8502  And I do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself withing the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled “An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust  for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me: nor have I any income other that what is contained in the Schedule herein annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a day labourer
and that I have a family residing with me viz. my wife Margaret aged 59 years who has had a shock of the numb palsy about two years ago, and ever since has been unable to do much labour, and that I am indebted ten dollars.
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid. [signed] Cato Tredwell
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is fifty one Dollars and one Cent and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the Record of said Court.
Test [signed] David Burr Clerk
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State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield County _
I David Burr, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Fifty one Dollars & one Cent. _ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Fairfield, this 13th day of June AD. 1820
[signed] David Burr Clerk of the County Court for said County of Fairfield.

District and State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield, June 13th 1820
I Robert Fairchild, Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in said State, do certify that David Burr, Esq. is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn; and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
[signed] Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield.
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Department of the Interior. 
Pension Office.
Washington, D. C.    August 4, 1884
Return this letter with your reply.

Old war Div.
ONB Ex’r.

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Sir
Yours of the 25th [illegible] is received claiming in behalf of Isaac Lewis Treadwell, as the heir of Cato Treadwell, who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution from Connecticut and a pensioner, the reversion of the pension to which ^it is alleged^ the widow of the above Soldier was entitled up to the day of her decease in 1861 ~
Cato Treadwell was allowed and paid a pension from 1818 to the day of his death, and if his surviving widow Eliza was entitled to a continuance of the pension which she neglected to ^establish^ during her life time, there is no law existing that will give the right to their children or other heirs to claim the same after her decease ~
Your attention is invited to the enclosed printed circular that refers to the law preventing favorable consideration to a pension after the decease of a Revy Soldier & his widow
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July 17, 1935
Cato Tredwell – S. 35358

The date which follow are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35358, based upon the military service in that war of Cato Tredwell, a free man of color.

Cato Tredwell (the name also appears as Treadwell) was born and reared in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The date of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown. 

Cato Tredwell enlisted at Stratford, Fairfield County, COnnecticut, sometime in 1780, served as a private in Captain Joseph Allyn Wright’s and Peter Robertson’s Companies, Colonel Heman Swift’s Connecticut Regiment and was discharged at the close of the war in 1783. It was stated that he was known in the army as Cato Freeman.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 23 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-five years and resided in Huntington, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

In 1820, soldier referred to his wife, Margaret, as aged fifty-nine years. There are no further date in regard to her and no reference was made to children. 

This history to be furnished if ever called for. It was written just to have a record of negro soldiers.