Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14659, Cato Dunsett, Mass.

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Service Mass.
Dunsett or Gray, Cato 
Number W.14659
Azube

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4.190
Massachusetts
Cato Dunsett alias Cato Gray
private

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 the 14th of May, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7th of Nov 1818 and sent to the Woodbridge Stockbridge Massachusetts

Arrears to 4th of September 1818 29.76
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4th 1819 48.00

3 years   $77.76

Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818

Williamstown

Berkshire CO

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Notification sent September 6th 1820 to Parker L Hall, Lenox Massachusetts

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3077

Massachusetts
[illegible] Azube Dunsett
survivor of Cato Dunsett, Deco:
alias Cato Gray
who was a pensioner under the pct of 19 Mar: 1818
and who died on the 10th: May 1827
of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Mayfield of the Regt. commanded by Col: Bailey. in the Massachusetts line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of June, 1839 and sent to Daniel N Dewey, Williamstown, Mass

Arrears to the 4th of Mar: 1839 $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept $40.00
$280.00

Act July 7th 1838

Recorded by MM Steuart
Book A Vol. 1 Page 83

Date of death not on aB

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-49-
Cato Dunsett

4190 [illegible] 18

Mar 1819

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District of Massachusetts, ss:

On this 30th day of June 1820; Personally appeared in open Court before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Lenox, within and for the County of Berkshire, in the Western Circuit, on the 4th Monday of June 1820, the same Court, 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 Dunsett alias Cato Gray aged 65 years, resident in Williamstown in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows; that he enlisted in the company commanded by Captain Maxwell in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Baley in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment. That his original declaration is dated 14, May 1818 and that his pension certificate is numbered 4190.

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, 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, or 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 subscribed - schedule of property, necessary clothing and bedding excepted - to wit:

eight chain - $4
[illegible]
two cider barrels - 1.
old pewter - 2.50
1 [illegible] - .32
1 chisel - .25
1 lathe - 4.
2 pails - .32

$15.49

I have a contested demand of Sixty Dollars on the recovery of which is uncertain + if recovery thirty Dollars of it are assigned in payment of a debt I owe

That I am by occupation a Labourer that I have frequently the Rheumatism unable to work that the number of my family residing with me is 3_ that their names and ages are as follow: Ezeula Dunsett my wife aged 60 [illegible]
my Daughter Rixy Dunsett very feeble that I have to support this whole
Signed Cato Dunsett

Sworn to, and declared on the 30th day of June 1820, before the said Court
Park L Hall [illegible]

I Parker L Hall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within and for the Country of Berkshire 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 the value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fifteen dollars and ninety nine cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this ninth day of August 1820.

Parker L Hall Clerk of the Court for the County of Berkshire

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Gray
Cato Dunsett

Bailey, Massa Regt.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire County
On 14th this day of May in the Year of our Lord 1818, before the subscriber Samuel Putnam, one of the deputies of the Supreme Judicial Court within aforesaid Commonwealth.

Personally appeared Cato Dunsett aged fifty nine years, resident in the town of Williamstown in the County of Berkshire aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late "Act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land + naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, that he the said Cato Dunsett, enlisted in the town of Pelham, by the name of Cato Gray on the 15th day of May 1777 his then master's name being Daniel Gray + he being directed by his master to assume that name at the time of his enlistment; the company in which he enlisted was commanded by Capt Maxfield of the Regt, commanded by Col. Bailey that he enlisted to serve in said [illegible] in the service of the United States until the 12th day of May 1780 when he was discharged from service at West Point in the State of New York. The [illegible] was a freeman [illegible].
That he was in the Battles at Bemis heights at [illegible] Burgoyne & at Monmouth.
and that he is in reduced circumstances + stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, + that he has no pension now + relinquishes all claims to any other. And that he has no other evidence [illegible] in his power of  his services, except the [illegible] hereto annexed.
Cato Dunsett
Sworn to, [illegible] before me the day + year aforesaid
S. Putnam Just
S.I. Court of Mass

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I Samuel Putnam Judge as [illegible] 
do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Cato Dunsett did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings + testimony [illegible] + had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress, given under my hand and the seal of said Court the 14, May 1818
S. Putnam Just
S. J. Court of Mass.

I Joseph Woodbridge clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court within + for the County of Berkshire do certify and attest that the above named Samuel Putnam is one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court [illegible].
And that the foregoing is his signature.
In testimony whereof I [illegible] here to set my Land and affixed the seal of said Court the day + year aforesaid first above written
Jas Woodbridge

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I John Day of Williamstown do testify + say that I have been acquainted with Cato Dunsett for more than twenty years past, + that I have frequently heard him state that he was a soldier in the revolutionary war, + that he is considered to be a man of truth + [illegible], + that I have no doubt but he performed the services as he has in his application stated + that he is in reduced circumstances
John Day

I Thomas Bingham of Williamstown do testify + say that I have known Cato Dunsett for a number of years past + have frequently heard him state that he has a soldier in the revolutionary war, that he is a man of truth a+ veracity, & that I have no doubt but he served in the way as he in his application has stated + that he is in reduced circumstances
Thomas Bingham

[Illegible] May 16 1818
Sworn to by the [illegible] Thomas Brigham and John Day before
S. Putnam Just
S.J.C. of Mass

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4491
Azube Dunsett Mass.
admitted 
[illegible] $80
Cap. Maxfield
Col Bailey Mass line
Act 7 July 1838

died 10 May 1827

Danl N Dewey
Williamstown Mass

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838

State of Massachusetts
County of Berkshire [illegible]. On this eighth day of January A.D. 1831 I personally appeared before William P. Walker Judge of the Court of Probate within + for said County, Azube Dunsett a resident of Williamstown in the County of Berkshire + State of Massachusetts aged seventy nine years, who being [illegible] sworn according to law doth on her oat make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed 7th July 1838
That she is the widow of Cato Dunsett who was a soldier in the army of the revolution, that her knowledge of his services was obtained from him, that her recollection of his statements is very much impaired by reason of age. She understood from him that he entered the service the next year after the declaration of independence + continued therein more than three years. Her husband was placed upon the pension [illegible] roll of the Massachusetts agency, under the act of Congress 18th March 1818_ as [illegible] by the [illegible] of the Secretary of War hereto annexed No. 4190 - that he continued to recieve the pension to the time of his death.

She further declares that she was married to the said Cato Dunsett on the nineteenth of June in the year A.D. 1786_ that her husband the aforesaid Cato Dunsett died on the tenth day of May 1829_ + that she has remained a widow ever since_ that pension as will more fully appear by [illegible] to the [illegible] hereto annexed. Her name before marriage was Azube Prut _ They were married in [illegible] in the County of Hampshire at the house of Deacon David Gray by whom the said

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Cato was brought upon. They were married by a justice of the peace from Greenwich whose name was Powers. They left Pelham immediately after they were married + moved to Stamford in the State of Vermont, resided there four years + then moved to Williamstown in which [illegible] they have since resided.
Azube [illegible] Dunsett

[illegible] + sworn to the open Court William P. Walker Judge of Probate

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire County
I Henry W. Bishop Register 
of the Court of Probate within and for the County
of Berkshire aforesaid do certify that the 
forgoing contains the original proceedings 
of said Court in the matter of the applica-
tion of Azube Duncett for a pension, that
the Hon. William P. Walker is the Judge
of said Court and that the forgoing signature
purporting to be his is his genuine signature

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and the seal of said
Court of Probate this eighth
say of January in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty nine.
Henry W Bishop Register Probate

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Rery
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 14659
Azube Dunsett
widow of
Cato Dunsett
alias Cato Gray
[illegible]
Act: July 7th 38
Index:- Vol. a, Page 200
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Cato Dunsett Map: Act 18 March 1818 to what time said: 
[illegible]
May 30, 1839
[illegible] 4 March 1827
[illegible]

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Williamstown Mass.
 January 9, 1839

JL. Edwards
Sir
I enclose the (illegible)
Azube Dunsett application for 
pension under the act of 1838.
Yours respectfully
Daniel N. Dewey

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Cato Dunsett

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(handwritten) No 4190
(typeset) War Department,
PENSION OFFICE,
(handwritten) September 6th (typeset) 1820.

(typeset) SIR,
                            You are hereby informed that the
schedule of your property has been examined; and the Secretary
of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension
Roll
                                     I am, respectfully,
                                          Your obedient servant,
                                                           (signature) J.L. Edwards

To Mr. (handwritten) Cato Dunsett,
           Care of Parker L. Hall, Esq;
             Lenox Mafstts.

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                        Cato Dunsett
Payable on the 4th of March 
and 4th of Sept. in each year,
at the Branch Bank US.
         Boston, Massachusetts.






Recorded

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WAR DEPARTMENT

Revolutionary Claim

(typeset) I CERTIFY, that in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES
(handwritten) of the 18th of March 1818
Cato Dunsett, alias Cato Gray, (typeset) late a (handwritten) private (typeset) in the
(handwritten) Army of the Revolution
(typeset) is inscribed in the Pension List, Roll of the (handwritten) Mafsachusetts (typeset) Agency,
at the rate of (handwritten) eight (typeset) dollars per month,
to commence on the (handwritten) fourteenth (typeset) day of (handwritten) May
(typeset) one thousand eight
hundred and (handwritten) eighteen.

(typeset) GIVEN at the War Office of United States,
this (handwritten) seventh (typeset) day of (handwritten) November
(typeset) one thousand eight hundred and (handwritten) eighteen.
                               J.C. Calhoun
                               Secretary of War.

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I Polly Haskell of Shutesbury in the county 
of Franklin and commonwealth of Massachusetts
of lawful age do testify and say that I was
well acquainted with Cato Dunsett late of Williamstown
deceased in the county of Berkshire and state of Massachusetts 
and that I am also well acquainted with Azube Dunsett
the widow of said Cato Dunsett deceased that her
name before marriage was Azube Prout that I was
present at their marriage which took place in
the town of Pelham in the county of Hampshire
in the state of Massachusetts June the nineteenth
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and eighty six. They were united in marriage by
[John] (crossed out) George Powers of Greenwich in the county of Hampshire
and State of Massachusetts in the year above
stated and further the deposant (illegible) that the
said Powers was then a Justice of the Peace for said county of
Hampshire
                                                                                Polly Haskell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin Co November 29 AD 1838
            Personally appeared Polly Haskell
and made oath to the truth of the above deposition
by her subscribed and I hereby certify that I am 
well acquainted with the said Polly Haskell
signer of the above and that she is a creditable 
person.
          Nathaniel Macomber Justice of the Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Franklin SS
               I Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for the county of Franklin do hereby certify that the
within named Nathaniel Macumber was on the
twenty ninth day of November last, and still is a Justice
of the Peace in and for said county; and that the
within signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
            In testimony whereof I hereunto set my 
            hand and affix the seal of said court this
            fourth day of december AD 1838.
                                 C. Alvordo Clerk

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We the subscribed residents in the town of Will-
iamstown in the County of Berkshire in the State of Massachusetts
duly depose and say that we were acquaintances with
Cato Dunsett late of this town deceased. We have
known him & his wife as much as forty years
They lived together as husband and wife till his death.
They had children. he received a pension from the 
United States for several years before his death. The
said Cato Dunsett died in the month of May AD
1827.                                His widow Azube Dunsett
(illegible) him and has never been married to any other
person.
                                         William Blair
                                        Thomas Bingham

I Roxana Dunsett so depose to say that I am the
daughter of Cato and Azube Dunsett, that I have 
always lived at home - that my father died
on the tenth day of May 1827, that my mother
has not since been married.
                                          Roxana Dunsett

State of Massachusetts
Berkshire County January 5th 1839. William
Blair, Thomas Bingham & Roxana Dunsett
signers of the foregoing affidavits appeared before 
me & made oath in the due form of law to the
truth of the same & I further certify that they 
are all persons of good reputation for truth &
veracity & I am acquaintances with 
each one of them.
                             Daniel N. Dewey, Justice
                                                   of Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Berkshire County fs
I, Henry W. Bishop, Register of the Court of 
Probate within and for the County of Berk
shire do certify that Daniel N Dewey Esq
before whom the forgoing affidavit or
deposition was taken was at the time of 
the taking thereof one of the Justices of 
the Peace within and for said County duly 
commissioned and qualified and that
the signature purporting to be his subscribed 
to the certificate of death, is his genuine 
signature, the testimony where I have
hereunto set my hand + the seal of said
                     Court of Probate this eighth
                     day of January in the year 
                     of our Lord one thousand Eight
                     hundred and thirty nine
                      Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate

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Mr. Edwin Blair
Williamstown Mass

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I Rufus Grout of Pelham hereby certify that I have
examined the records of same town and have not been
able to find any record of the marriage of Cato Dunsett to 
Azube Prut but I find a record of their establishment which
is [in the following] (crossed out) as follows viz March fifth one thousand
seven hundred and eighty six then entered on habitation Cato
Dunsett of Stanford and Azube Prut of Pelham,
I hereby 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 March 5th 1786_ Rufus Grout
I Rufus Grout above named depose & say that I hold the office 
of Clerk of the town of Pelham in the County of Hampshire
and State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract 
from the records of said town with the exception above 
named, as certified by me        Rufus Grout, Clerk of the town of Pelham
October 25 1838

Hampshire County October -th 1838
I (illegible) the above named Rufus Grout town clerk of
Town of Pelham personally appeared and made (illegible)
that the above certificate by him submitted is a 
true Copy of the Record as therein prepared Before
Henry Kingman Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire S
I Samuel Wells clerk of the judicial Courts of the common
wealth of Massachusetts for the County of Hampshire (illegible)
do certify that Henry Kingman Esquire whose signature is
affixed to the above certificate was at the date thereof one of
the Justices of the Peace within and for said County duly
commissioned and active under the authority of this 
Commonwealth and that full faith and credit are (illegible)
to be given to his acts and attestation done in that 
capacity; and I am well acquainted with the hand 
writing of the said Kingman and believe his certificate to 
(illegible) certificate is genuine
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand
and affix the seal of the Court of Common Pleas
for said Commonwealth this twenty second day of Decem
ber in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty eight
                                     Samuel Wells Clerk