Pension Affidavit of Cato Greene

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICT.

District Court, June sixth Special Term, A.D. 1820.

On this sixth day of June 1820, personally appeared in
open Court, being a Court of Record within and for said district
Cato Green (a man of Colour) aged 80 years, residing in the town of Cranston
in said District and County - who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his
oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: That he served
in Colo Green's and Colo Olneys Regiments of the Rhode Island
line more than five years

that he made a previous declaration on the third day of April
1818, and that he has received a certification for a pension, being No. 1924 - And I do
solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen 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, or any part thereof, with
intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress,
entitled "An act to provide for certain person engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States, in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thous-
and eight hundred and eighteen: that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any
property or securities, contracts of debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what
is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Cato [his X mark] Green

A SCHEDULE of Property and Income (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) of
Cato Green, one acre of land in Cranston, and a very
old house thereon, 4 chairs very old some knives & forks
and 1 table, - and this declarent saith that he was a native
of Guinea and brought to this country and sold as a slave.
That during the war he enlisted to obtain his freedom, thus
he is now so old, as to be unable to work and must depend on
charity if his pension is discontinued. That he has had two wives but has lost them
both by death, that at this time he has no family-

Sworn to and declared in open court on the sixth day of June 1820 before David Howell District Judge

RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICT.
Clerk's Office of the District Court, A. D. 1820

I, Benjamin Cowell 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 amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is----
one hundred -- dollars and --- cents. In testimony whereof, I
have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Twentieth
day of July 1820

Benjamin Cowell Clerk of said Court.