Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2354, Cato Howe, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE      NUMBER
[handwritten] Mass Howe, Cato (Colored) W.2354 [/handwritten]
[handwritten] or [/handwritten]
[handwritten]  How  B.L.Wt. /2829-160-55 [/handwritten]
[handwritten] Rogers, Lucy [/handwritten]
CONTENTS [underlined]
[handwritten] (former widow) [/handwritten]
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 5555.
Massachusetts
Cato How H.
private
Massachusetts line
75 War

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on th 11 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of Jan 1819 and sent to Judge Mitchell 
Carl Bridgewater - May 5

Arrears to 4th of Feb 1818 4 on [illegible] over 30
semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819
38.40 + 48 = 86.40 [addition by hand to the right of text] 

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}

Plymouth
Continued

Notification such Oct. 30th 1820 to
John B. Thomas Plymouth Mass: [Handwritten inscription on far-right hand side of page]
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[Bottom left side of page, handwritten]
Vol. He 2_53. _
[Right side of page, handwritten]
April 27/53-
103/24
[Line]
Lucy Rogers formerly wid: [widow] of 
Lucy Rogers wid of [?unclear]
Cato Rogers[crossed out] Howe [pwi?]
[Line]
Cato Howe
Map: Contl line
Rev war
[Written on the diagonal] [RW?] 12.829 fo [illegible]
[Line]
Rev. Pen
Map reg 53-2182
[Line]
119:160 acres Dec. 15" 1855,
[Signature] Boynton [?]
[Written perpendicular to text] Buy no. 90 [?]
Rule
[Line] 
R.W. Young
Present [?]
[/handwritten]
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2182
Massachusetts
Lucy Rogers former
widow of Cato Howe
May
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 
96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of Sept/53
and sent to
Israel Perkins
Died May 7, 1855
Dannens Mafsa
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 45 Vol. A
181.8
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Cato How
Plymouth
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I Cato Howe of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a citizen of the United States and now resident therein set forth and declare my oath that I was a private soldier in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment for more than nine months, that from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support and therefore am desirous of obtaining a pension of the United States arguably to a late loss of comfort of the 18th March last and do relinquish all claim to any former pension if any heretofore granted me by any loss of comfort  - that I entered the service in the spring of 1775 and continued in the Massachusetts line to the end of the war and was honorably discharged in 1783. I served in Captain George Durhams Company and in Colonel Baileys Regiment Arnolds Brigade
I have no written discharge 
Cato Howe
X his Mark
Sworn to April 11. 1818.

11 CHO 63 years
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk. City of Boston

when deceased [handwritten]
Eighteen hundred forty [handwritten]
August seventh [handwritten]

when interred [handwritten]
Eighth [handwritten]

Name [handwritten]
John Rogers [handwritten]

Age. [handwritten]
Year [handwritten]
Sixty [handwritten]

Disease [handwritten]
Intemperance [handwritten]

Undertaker [handwritten]
Davis [handwritten]

where interred [handwritten]
South Burial Ground [handwritten]

I certify the above record is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows: -
"1840 August 7. 8" [handwritten]

Artemas Simonds [handwritten]

I, Artemas Simonds [handwritten] above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of City Registrar, in the City, County, and Commonwealth aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy from the records of said City, with the exception above named, as certified by me.

Artemis Simonds [handwritten] City registrar.

subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this twenty third [handwritten] of September [handwritten] A.D. 1853 and I certify that I have no interest in the prosecution or relief of this claim. [handwritten]

WM Palfrey [handwritten] Justice of the Peace.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, September 23 1853
I hereby Certify, That at the date hereof
WM Palpey is a Justice of the Peace
for the County of Suffolk

in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of court.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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R. W. Young

103124 [handwritten bottom of page]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's office, Boston, April 24th. 1855.

I Hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereunto annexed, Fitch Poole was a Justice of the Peace for Essex County and WM. W. Bullock
Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk

in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to their acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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I Know all men by these present that
I Israel Perkins of Danvers in the County
of Essex and State of Massachusetts have made
constituted and appointed and by these presents
do make constitute and appoint R W Young of
the City of Washington DC my time and lawfull
Attorney for me and in my name place and
Stead Do present before the Hon. L. P. Waldo.
Commissioner of Pensions the claim of Lucy
Rogers from Bounty Land under the act of Congress
passed March 3d 1855
Witness my hand and Seal this tenth day
of April A.D. 1855
Sign Sealed and delivered
In presence of
Israel Perkins
Jonathan Perkins
Catherine T Perkins

State of Massachusetts S.S.
County of Essex
On this tenth day of April A.D. 1855
before me the (illegible) Justice of the peace
within and for said County personally appeared
Israel Perkins and acknowledged the foregoing
power of Attorney to be his free act and deed for
the purposes therein mentioned
Fitch Poole
Justice of the Peace
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Know all men by these presents, That I, Lucy Rogers of Boston in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts have made, constituted, and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint Ismael Perkins of Danvers in the County of Essex State of Massachusetts my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, place and stead, To prosecute before Honorable L. P. Waldo. Commissioned of pensions a Bounty Land Claim I have against the United States Government under the act of Congress passed March Third Eighteen Hundred and Fifty five.

giving and granting unto my said Attorney, full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his substitute or substitutes shall lawfully do, or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal to the twentyeight day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty five

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of 
Mary Elsberry
WM Bullock
Lucy Rogers X her mark

State of Massachusetts}ss.
County of Suffolk 

On this twentyeight day of March A.D. 1855, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, personally appeared Lucy Rogers and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, and also made oath that the party directly interested in the above mentioned as a claimant.

WM Bullock Justice of the Peace.
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State of Massachusetts,
County of Suffolk ss.
On this twentyeight day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive, personally appeared before me, WM Bullock, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county and State of  Massachusetts who sworn according to law, declares that she is (crossed out) was formerly the widow of Cato Howe deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and in the matter of her application for pension under the act of February Third Eighteen hundred and fifty three that she is now a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum; that her pension certificate was issued to her under date of and that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3, 1855. She also declares that she has not received a Warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
Lucy Rogers
X her mark

We, Catherine L Barbadoes and Mary Elsberry, residents of Boston in said County and State, upon our oaths declare, that the foregoing that we know her to be the identical widow of (crossed out) person whom was formerly the widow of Cato Howe who was reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary war; that she is a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States, and that she is now a widow. 
Mary Elsbury
Cetherine L. Barbadoes

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she presents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. 

WM Bullock Justice of the Peace.

Note the words (was formerly) was intended between the fourth and fifth line from the top before signing [handwritten far left of page]
WM Bullock Justice of the Peace [handwritten far left of page]
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Cato Howe
5555
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Schedule.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Plymouth ss.

On this 18th day of July 1890, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceeding, personally appeared in open Court, aged 64 years, resident in Plymouth in said County, the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. for the term of Eight years in the Massachusetts line most of the time  in Col. Baileys Reg. and that he has received a pension certificate dated 25th Jan. 1819 and numbered 5555 in pursuance of his original Declaration made April 11th 1819 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.

And I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 28th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of and  that I have not, nor has any person in trust of me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Real estate I have none

Valued {
$27-02
person property I have the following articles viz
1 bow 1wig 5 chairs 1 table 2 kettles 3 knives + forks 3 plates
2 bowls axe shoe -

I am by occupation is (crossed out) a farmer am very subject to the rheumatism and often incapable of any labour (misspelled) I have a wife named Alathea Howe aged 70 years bed ridden and frequently unable to feed herself we both received assistance from the town of Plymouth before I obtained my certificate of pension
Cato Howe X his mark

Sworn to, and declared, on the 10th day of July ___ 1820.
before Nahum Mitchell} C Justice of the Court

I, John B Thomas clerk of said court. do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 Twenty seven dollars and ____ cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Twenty Second day of July 1821.

M B Thomas
Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston, June 30 1853

I hereby Certify, That at the dates of the annexed attestations Jona C. Perkins was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. and by law I sit in the Municipal Court and was a Justice of the Peace for all the Counties - and William H. Spear was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned  and constituted; and that to their acts and attestations, as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court. The signatures of M Perkins are genuine

In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 

EM Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Plymouth May 19th 1853

I hereby certify that in a record kept by James Morton late Septon of Plymouth deceased and headed "Memorandum of Interments of the dead by James Morton Septon of Plymouth" I find in the list under date of March 2 1824 the following entry.

Cato Howe - a colored man

I also certify that the said James Morton was Septon of Plymouth from 1820 to 1830 inclusion

Leander Lovell Town Clerk

Plymouth May 20, 1853

Then the above named Leander Lovell, made oath that the above statement by him made is his before me
WM H Spear
Justice of the Peace
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State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth Town of Plymouth

Marriage solemnized by the Rev. William S. Torrey (a) August twentieth one thousand eight hundred and twenty one Cato Howe and Lucy Prettison both of Plymouth

I certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows:  -(b)
"August 20, 1821"

Leander Lovell Town Clerk

I, Leander Lovell above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, county, and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy from the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.

Leander Lovell {Clerk of the Town of Plymouth}

Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this Fourth day of May A.D. 1853

WM H. Specer Justice of the Peace
(a) Here fill in exact transcript of the record, except that, instead of copying the figures, the date must be written out in full.
(b) Here give the date exactly as it is in the record.

Plymouth May 19, 1853
I hereby Certify that I have no interest or concern in the prosecution in consult of this claim. 
WM H. Specer
Justice of the Peace
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Know all Men by the Presents, that I, Lucy Rogers, of Boston in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have made constituted, and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint Israel Perkins of Danvers in the County of Essex. State of Massachusetts my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, place and stead, To prosecute before the Hon. Commissioner of Pension at Washington DC a claim I share against the United States Government, under the act of Congress passed on the 3rd February A.D. 1853 on account of services rendered by my husband (Cato Howe) in the name of the revolution 

giving and granting unto my said Attorney, full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or his substitute or substitutes shall lawfully do, or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the Twenty first day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and Fifty Three 

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of 
Lucy Rogers X her mark former widow of Cato Howe
E Jackson
Ann Hull

State of Massachusetts }ss.
County of Suffolk

On this twenty first day of June A.D. 1853, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, personally appeared Lucy Rogers  and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, and also made oath the She is a party directly interested in the above mentioned as a claimant.

J.C. Perkins Justice of the Peace for all the counties of the Commonwealth
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State of Massachusetts SS.

On the Twenty first day of June in the year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Three personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts now sitting as ___________________________
Lucy Rogers of Boston in the State and County aforesaid former widow of Cato Howe of Plymouth State of Massachusetts and County of Barnstable, aged Seventy Eight years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress on the third of February Eighteen Hundred and Three granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war: that she is the widow of Cato Howe who was a pensioner of the United States under the acts of Congress passed March 18th in the year Eighteen Hundred and Eighteen at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per annum and that her said husband resided at Plymouth aforesaid at the time he entered the service of the war of the Revolution and served in manner particularly set forth in the papers on file in the Pension Bureau in the matter of his application for under said acts. She further declared that she was married to the said Cato Howe at Plymouth on the Twentieth day of August Eighteen Hundred and Twenty one that her said husband died at Plymouth in said County of Barnstable on the first day of March A.D. 1824. that she was not married to him prior to the second of January Eighteen Hundred but at the time above stated She further declares that she is now a widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. 
Lucy Rogers X her mark former widow of Cato Howe
Before J.C. Perkins Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the ____ as we used to ___ dully authorized by law is the ____ Court for the County of Suffolk aforesaid


we Elizabeth Jackson and Ann Hall do hereby certify that we saw Lucy Rogers make her mark to her declaration as above
Ann Hall
Elizabeth Jackson
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August 28, 1931
RA-J/EFL

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.2354, that Cato Howe (the name also appears as How), a man of color, while residing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, enlisted in the spring of 1775 and served until February 19, 1777, when he re-enlisted, and served until the end of the war, the most of which service was rendered as a private in Captain George Dunham's Company, Colonel John Bailey's Massachusetts  Regiment.

He was allowed a pension on his application executed April 11, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-three years and resided in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

He died February 29, 1824, or March 1, 1824, at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Both dates appear in claim.

The soldier married Alathea-----. Her maiden name and the dates of their marriage and her death are not shown. She was living in 1820 and was the seventy years of age. He married August 20, 1821, at Plymouth, Massachusetts, Lucy, the widow of Thomas Prettison or Patterson. After the death of the soldier, Cato Howe, she married John Rogers who died in Boston, Massachusetts, August 7, 1840.

Cato Howe's widow, Lucy, was allowed pension on her application executed June 21, 1853, at which time she was aged seventy-eight years and resided in Boston, Massachusetts.

She died May 7, 1855.

There is no reference to children of either marriage.

This history to be furnished if ever called for. It was written just to have a record of negroes.
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Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 2354
Lucy Rogers formerly widow Cato Howe.
P[?] Rev. War.
Act Hele.3.1853.
Index:-Vol. M., Page 168
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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v
12,829
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No 2370
Lucy Rogers former widow of Cato Howe

Sitto I. Perkins 10 Sept. 1853

Act 3 Feb. 1853
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appl of Lucy Rogers widow of Cato Howe
Suffolk Co. Mass.

M. 19
Act 30 Feb, 1853
$96.00 Per an
Com Feb: 3d 1853
Rev.

Israel Perkins,
Danvers, Essex co. Mass.

Pension Office, Official Business
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Pension Office
27 Sept. 1853,

Iri, Please certify thereunto which the within named pension was paid on the date of his death.

Yours Respectfully,
L P Waldo
_______
Cato Howe, act 1818, $8.p.m. Died 29th Feb. 1824. Paid to his death.

F. Burt
Auditor

Francis Burt Esq.
___ Auditor ___
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Danvers Mass Sept. 23rd 1853
Hon. L P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC
Sis
I have herewith enclosed a certificate of the death of MRS Lucy Rogers last husband, I should have sent with her other papers had I obtained it in season
Your Sis
Respectfully
Israel Perkins
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Plimouth [Plymouth] July 26th 1781
Received of Capt Joseph Thomas one hundred and sixty one Dollars and thirty three ninetieth of a Dollar, [illegible] the same which he received of Mr Mellich paymaster to the [illegible] 2d Regt of the Massachusetts line, for my services [illegible] in the said Regiment,
Attest Wm. Thomas
his mark [hand drawn X] Cato Hoe
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Boston March 7 1805 Then certify that Cato Howe, was a soldier enlisted during the Revolutionary War and actually served under that enlistment three years and was honorably discharged according to my best recollection
WM Hull
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This may certify that Cato How a man of color was a private soldier in Capt. George Dunham Company 2nd Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel John Bailey enlisted Feb 17, 1777 for three years and served his time out taken in good reason and had an honorable discharge

Plymouth 18 1818

Silas Morton
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Danvers Mass July 1st 1853
To the Honorable Commisioner of Pension
Washington DC
Dear Sis
Please send Lucy Rogers Pension Certificate to me at Danvers Essex County Mass
yours Sis respectfully
Israel Perkins
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Rogers
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Brief in the case of Lucy Rogers former widow of Cato Howe, Suffolk COunty and State of Mass:
Act 3d. Feb 1853.

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.") [for increase is crossed out]

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818Cont.
Recom evidence of marriage.

(If for increase.) 
Has additional evidence been filed since admission of the claim? if so, what?

Israel Perkins ESQ.
Danvers Essex Co. Mass:
Name and residence of Agent

S.C. Boynton Examining Clerk.
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Cato How
Plymouth
11 Ap'l 1818 private
Bailey's rgt 75 War
Mass line
Admitted
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 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
on this 11th day of April AD. 1818, before me
the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas,
for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Cato How of
Plymouth age sixty three years, resident in
the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on
his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the
provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for
certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States
in the revolutionary war." (See his said declaration enclosed).
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And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction,
 that the said [handwriten] Cato Howe [handwritten] did serve in the 
revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com-
mon enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment ; 
and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, 
to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of 
the aforementioned act of Congress [handwritten] , and that he needs 
the assistance of his country for sup
port. [handwritten] 

[handwritten] Nahum Mitchell [handwritten]

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss. 1818
I HERBY CERTIFY, That 
is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern 
Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Nerfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, 
Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth - that the same Circuit Court 
of Common Pleas is a Court of record - that the signature to the above cer-
tificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto 
affixed is the seal of the said Court. 

Clerk of the Judicial 
Court for the County
of
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L Rogers
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[affixed Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston, September 20th 1853
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestations Benja [Benjamin] H. Currier was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk

in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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State of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk
[on right side of text with bracket] S. S.

On this nineteenth day of September A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Suffolk and State aforem [illegible] Rachel Tilford a resident of the City of Boston in Said County and State aged sixty six (66) years who first being duly Sworn according to law doth depose and Say, that she formaly resided in the Town of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and State aforesaid that Cato How late of Said Town of Plymouth who was a revolutionary Pensioner of the United States was to her well known. That Lucy Rogers who has made an application to the United States Government for a pension under the act of Third of February Eighteen hundred and Fifth Three, is to her well known. The she knows her to be the identical person who was formaly the widow of Cato How aforesaid, That she has been personally acquainted with the aforesaid Lucy Rogers ever since the death of Cato How aforesaid
And this deponant doth further depose and Say that Lucy Rogers aforesaid is now the widow of John Rogers late of Said City of Boston deceased

Witness
B. H. Currier her mark [hand drawn X] Rachel Telford
Sarah T Bassett

State of Massachusetts
Suffolk County SS Boston September 19th 1853
There personally appeared the above named Rachel Tilford, and made oath, that the foregoing
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Affidavit by her Subscribed is true
Before me, Benj. H. Currier
Justice of the Peace

I further Certify that the mother named Rachel Tilford is a person of good character and entitled to belief.

I also certify that I have no interest whatever in any allowance that may be granted to the within named Lucy Rogers

Benj H. Currier
Justice of the Peace

L Rogers [vertical handwritten label on left margin of page]
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State of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk
[on right side of text with bracket] S. S.
On this nineteenth day of September A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Suffolk and State aforesaid, Lucy Rogers, a residend of the City of Boston in Said County and State, who first being duly duly Sworn according to law; doth depose and Say, that She is the Identical person who was formaly the window of Cato How; late of the Town of Plymouth in the County of Plymouth in the State aforesaid, who was a revolutionay pensioner of the United States, that she is the Identical person who has made an application to the United States Government for a Pension under the act of Congress passed on the 8th February 1853 That she was the widow of Thomas Patterson [smudged] [illegible word] she married Cato How aforesaid. That she is now the widow of John Rogers late of said City of Boston in said County and State.

Witness Isabella S Holmes her mark [hand drawn X] Lucy Rogers
B. H. Currier

State of Massachusetts
Suffolk County SS Boston September 19th 1852.
There personally appeared the above named Lucy Rogers and made oath that the foregoing Affidavit by her subscribed, is true.
Before me Benj. H. Currier
Justice of the Peace
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 I further certify that the within named Lucy Rogers is a person of good character and  entitled  to belief. I also certify that I have no interest whatever in any allowance that may be granted to the within named Lucy Rogers
Benj. H. Currier(Benjamin)
Justice of the Peace
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State of Massachusetts
County of Suffolk

on this 19th day of September AD, 1853, personally appeared before
me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Suffolk
and State aforesaid Hannah Mason a resident of City of Boston in Said County
and State aforesaid age forty eight years who first being duly Sworn according to bare doth depose and say that She formaly (formerly) resided in the Town of Plymouth in the  County of Plymouth and Sate aforesaid, that Cato How late
of Said Town of Plymouth who was a revotutionary(revolutionary) Pensioned of the United States used to her well known. That Lucy Royear(Rogers) who has made an application to the United States government for a pension under the act of the Third of February Eighteen hundred and Fifty Three, is to her well known, that she knows her to be the Identical person who was formaly(formerly) the widow of Cato Hou aforesaid, that she has been personally acquainted with the
aforesaid Lucy Rogers ever Since the death of Cato How aforesaid-
And this deponent doth further depose and Say that Lucy Rogers aforesaid is now a widow      
Hannah Mason(signature in the same ink as the bulk of the document)
(In a different hand writing signature of Currier)
witness
B.H. Currier

Sarah T Bassett
State of Massachusetts Suffolk County SS Boston September 19th 1853.
There personally appeared the above named Hannah Mason and made oath
that the forgoing Affidavit
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by her subscribed is true
Before me
Benj. St. Currier
Justice of the Peace

Further Certify that within named Hannah
Mason is a person of good character and
entitled to belief.  I also certify, that I
have no interest what ever in any
allowance that may be granted to the
within named (crossed out- Hannah Mason) Lucy Rogers

Benj H. Currier
Justice of the Peace