Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,849, Cato Freedom, Conn.

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SERVICE Conn.
Freedom, Cato
NUMBER S.44,849

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44849
INVALID
Revy
File No. 44849
Cato Freedom
Priv. Rev. War.
Act: 18 March 1818.
Index :- Vol. 3, Page 175
[Arrangement of 1870]

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Burlington NY for
July 23
Hon. James Barbour
Sec. of War
Washington City

Bounty Land office 
July 28 1827

Lot 4158 issued
Apr. 20, 1790

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(Otsego County N. Y.) Burlington 21st July 1827
Hon James Barbour
Sir
Cato Freedom (a man of colour an African by birth) for whom I am an Agent - is a Revolutionary Pensioner who obtained his Freedom by serving in the Revolutionary army in the Connecticut line he served in Capt Sheldon or Douglass company in Col. S. B. Webb's Regt. and as I am informed Enlisted during the war and served to the end of the same and has never received his Bounty land the object of this is to enquire whether he can now obtain the bounty land and if so what steps he must take to obtain it-
Yours very respectfully
[signed] Henry Sill

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2117
New York
Cato Freedom
Capt Bulkley
private Connecticut line 1778. three years in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3d of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Aug 1818 and Sent to John Russell Esq Cooperstown, Ostego Co NY

Arrearages to 4th Sept 1818
5 Months 2/31ths $40.53
Died Feb 13, 1830
{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,} 18 May 29 S. B. Webb
Burlington, Ostego Co
Continued
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[begin right side]
see letter to H. Sill Dec. 31. 1829
Notification [illegible]
Geo. Morell Esq
Cooperstown N York
13 October 1820

Dead.
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Cato Freedom
Burlington No 2117

property $214
Debts         50
                $164

This is the case of a Poor decriped old man who 
would ere this have had he sold his property and applied to the Overseers of the Poor for assistance had he not been so fortunate as to have obtained his Pension--
[signed] Geo. Morell
2117
6 August 1818
CM

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State of New York
Otsego County Clerks office ss: 

I George Morell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego & State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the 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 two hundred & fourteen Dollars

In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 24 Jun 1820

[signed] G. Morell Clk

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District of New York 
Otsego County,} ss.

On this 21st day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record for the county aforesaid, Cato Freedom aged 84 years, resident in Burlington in the county of Otsego in said District, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war, in Captain E. Burkley of Tredwell company Colonel Samuel B. Webb's regiment, belonging to the Connecticut line: And the date of his original declaration was on the third day of April 1818 on which he has received a pension certificate, No. 2117. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift or sale, or in any manner, 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 persons engaged in the land and naval service 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 than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed.

ARTICLES OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.
I have thirty three acres of land, about ten acres of which are under improvement & on which there is a poor old log house and the whole of which is worth about one hundred & fifty Dollars 1 yoke of steers worth $40 - 1 cow worth $12 three shoats worth $2.50 - 1 old plow - 1 axe - 6 chairs - 1 old pot & three kettles & some three small articles of furniture - 

By occupation a farmer & formerly a servant or waiter - but owing to old age and Rheumatic complaints & partial blindness I am unable to do but very little labor ~

I have a Wife & 2 Children who reside with me - My wife is 53 years old and is now & has been for four & five years unable to do but very little work - Charlotte aged 15 years able to support herself - Aurelia aged 13 - Weakly & [Phthisical] & unable to support herself That I have no sons & that in consequence of my age & infirm state of health I am under the necessity of letting out my small piece of land to be worked on shares ~  and that I owe about fifty Dollars more than I have debts due to me 

[signed] Cato (X his mark) Freedom

Sworn to & subscribed on this 21 June 1820 Before the Court 
[signed] Geo Morell Clk

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Cato Freeman
3d April
Connct DN

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State of New York 
Otsego County} 

Cato Freedom of the town of Burlington in said County being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is a citizen of the United States of America and an actual resident of said Town of Burlington 

And also that he inlisted in to the army of the United States of America in the month of May [illegible] after the surrender and capture of Burgoin in the year seventeen hundred & seventy eight -

That he enlisted into a company commanded by Captains Edward Bulkley of Connecticut, which company was under the Command of Col Samuel B Webb and known as the Third Connecticut Regt. which rgt was further under the Command of Gen. Ebenezer Huntington -

That he served under Capt Bulkley until he was dismissed and and this deponent [illegible] continued in the same company which

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was then commanded by Capt Sheldon and after him by Capt Douglass. That he served in said Company in the [illegible] about three years. And untill the spring after the surrender of Cornwallis at York town and he further saith that he was at the date last aforesaid honorably discharged from the army aforesaid. 

And that he has lost the written discharge that he so received. 

And he also saith that he is in Such reduced circumstances in life that he is in actual need of assistance from his county for support 

And he further saith That he has never received any pension from the government of the United States. 

And he also hereby relinquishes all claim to any former pension what said Government may have granted if any-

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[signed] Cata [Cato] (X his mark) Freedom

In presence of James W. Webb

Sworn before me this third day of April 1818.
[signed] John Russell
Judge of Otsego Com. Pleas

State of New York
Otsego County

I John Russell one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County aforesaid do certify that I am satisfied the said Cato Freeman in the revolutionary war as aforesaid against the common enemy for a longer time than nine months as stated in the affidavit of the said Cato hereunto annexed 

And also that the evidence in which I have founded my judgement is contained in the affidavit of the said Cato Freeman

Given under my hand at Cooperstown this third day of April 1818

[signed]John Russell
Judge of Otsego Com pleas