Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,514, for Cato Prince, Massachusetts
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Prince, Cato (colored) [column 2, row 1]

Service [title of column 3]
S. 33514 [column 3, row 1]
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Notification sent October 18 1820 to Senator Tucker Salem, Mass

3628

Massachusetts Roll
Cato Prince,

[illegible] Smith

Private
Massachusetts live - 1780. 3 years
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 18th of April 1818. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th of October 181[illegible] and sent to Samuel Putnam [illegible] Judge Salem. 

Arrears to the 4th of September 1818 ---36:53. 
Semi-anl, all's ending 4th March 1819 -- 48:-
$84:53

[illegible] 32
7/30 4:53:3

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Marblehead
Essa C
Marblehead. 
Con[illegible]
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33514
INVALID
Revy

File No. 33,514

Cato Prince 

Pri Rev War

Act: 18th March 18

Index:-Vol. 2, Page 328

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Cato Prince

18 Apl

Not on Rolls 
DN

Admitted
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I Cato Prince of Marblehead in the County of Essex and common wealth of Massachuets laborer, upon oath make the following declaration. That I was a solider in the American Revolutionary War and on or about the latter part of December A.D seventeen hundred  eighty or the beginning of the year following, I was enlisted as a private for and during the war by Ensign Kendrick and marched with him to New York, and there was Placed in Cap Smiths Company Colo Jacksons Regiment on the Continental establishment and that this declarant faithfully served during said term, and that when the Peace took place in the year Seventeen hundred + eighty three I was Honourably Discharged, during the whole time I was [illegible] a free man. 

That I this Declarant Received a Written Certification of my Discharge and that I have lost the same by time and accident. That I am seventy years old and inform and from my reduced circumstances in life am now in need of assistance from my Country for support. And that I herby relinquish my claim to every Pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States

Signed before
S Putnam

his mark
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Cato Prince
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I John Prince of Marblehead in there county of Essex and Common wealth of Massachusetts esq. On Oath Depose testify and say, that Ito Prince who has made the aforewritten declaration was a Solider in the American Revolutionary War on the Continental establishment, and enlisted to serve for the term of three years or during the War, that some time on or about the ending of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty, or the beginning of the year following he marched from Marblehead to join the Army, and I verily believe he continued in the service of the United States until the War ended having been absent from Marblehead for more than two years and I believe that the within written Declaration made by said Cato is true

[signed]
John Prince

I Jacob Angle of Marblehead in the County of Essex aforesaid laborer on oath depose testify and say that I was a Soldier in the late Revolutionary War on the Continental establishment and belonged to Colo Henry Jacksons Regiment in the year Seventeen hundred eight two and continued in the Services during the war and until peace took place and that I well knew Cato Prince a man of Color who was a Soldier in the same Regiment with me and served in said Regiment during said year and unitl the war ended and I further say that I well knew that said Cato Prince having lived in Marblehead the same place with him for a number of years previous to going into the Army - 

his mark
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Jacob Angle 

Essex Co. Marblehead august 25..1818

Then personally appeared Jacob Angle above named and made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed. . 

Before me Nathan Bowen Justice of the Peace for County of Essex
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Essex Co.. On this eighteenth day of April A.D one thousand eight hundred + eighteen. personally appeared Before Me Samuel Putnam one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid, The afore named Cato Prince and John Prince esqn and in my presence subscribed and made oath to the afore written Declaration and affidavit by them respectively made, and it appearing to my satisfaction that the aforementioned Cato Prince served for the term of more than nine Months to wit from 1780 ---
to the end of the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment against the common enemy. I hereby Certify the Testimony in the case and the proceedings had thereon to the Secretary of the department of War.

In Testimony whereof I here unto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this eighteenth day of April A.D one thousand eight hundred + eighteen

S. Putnam Just
S. J. Court of Massts} 

I Ichabod Tucker Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said State in and for the County of Essex do certify that the Hon Samuel Putnam is a Judge of said Super Judicial Court that the above signature is his proper hand writing and that the seal hereto affix is the seal of said Court

Salem April 20th 1818

Ichabod Tucker, Cer
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Sers: Sept. 26, 1818 I further certify that John Prince Esq. and Jacob Angle are credible and disinterested witnesses: and that Cato Prince is in indigent circumstances and needs assistance from his country for support. 

S. Putnam Just
S.J. Court of Mass }

I further certify that Nathan Bower EsqE is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex and his signature within is genuine. 

Atta

[signed]

Ichabod Tucker Clerk
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3628

Cato Prince

Oct 1818

Cand Dec 5 1820

CM
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

ESSEX, ss. 

At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A.D. 1820. 

Present, Hon. SAMUEL DATA, Chief Justice. 
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices. 

In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Cato Prince resident in Marblehead in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certification No. 3628 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit, 

"WAR DEPARTMENT ......... REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. 
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Cato Prince late a private
"in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate
"of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 18th 
"day of - April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
"Given at the War of Office of the United States, this fourteenth day
"of October one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

J.C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"

appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule subscribed by him, as follows, to wit. 

SCHEDULE, 
containing his whole estates and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, no personal nor real estate. 
He is 62 years of age; has no family; in infirm and unable to do any kind of work, and before his pension lived on charity. He served in the Revolutionary war in Capt Smiths' company, Col. Jacksons Regiment in the Massachusetts line, was at the capture of Cornwallis- 

Attest E.F. Wallace

[signed] 
his mark
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Cato Prince 

Sworn to be declared before Wm Wetmore Judge
above named
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit, 

I, Cato Prince, do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, of any part thereof, with intent thereby 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 the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribe. So help me GOD. 

Attest E.F. Wallace

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Cato Prince

Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820. 

The the abovenamed Cato Prince took and subscribed the aforementioned Oath before me Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court. 

I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the option of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is nothing. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex on this 17th day of July A.D. 1820

Attr. Ichabod Tucker, Clkr