Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,169, for Cato Kent, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Kent, Cato (Colored) Negro.
W. 26,169
Beulah
CONTENTS

18.456
Connecticut
Cato Kent
(alias)
Cato Negro.
of Hartford Co. in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of War.
scribed on the Roll of Connecticut. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 d of May 1821
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of Jan y 182 and sent to the Hon John Russ House of Reps
Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1821 — $32.54 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Mar 1822 48.
June 29/31/30 $ 80.54
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
81 May 1820

35 Connecticut Peniah Kent widow of Cato Kent who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private due from 1880 Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 98 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
1 July Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Jan 1857 and sent to
Mrs O Fowler No of Reps
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 301 Vol. 1
Rate of Pension not in the

bato Kent alias bato Negro.
admitted & continued
on Roll

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD, ss. County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, holden at Hartford in said County, on the Second Tuesday of August — 1821
ON this 1 st day of Sept r — 1821 personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment,
Cato Kent aged 58 years, resident in  Hartford in the County of Hartford,
who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, deposes that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
make the following declaration in congress of the 18 th March 1818 & the 1 st enlisted for during the war on the day Company commanded by Capt. Granger as he In the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment having been sundry times transferred but in what manner by Col. Zebulon Butler & afterwards to the Reg t commanded
“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, 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 subscribed.”
He had no property except a bed worth about $8    five old chairs worth 2.50   a sailor's chest worth 1   one old table 1.50   13.00 
And is by occupation a sailor but so infirm with rheumatic complaints as to be unable to pursue it except a little in the coasting line in the summer — he has a wife aged about 50 who enjoys good health & earns her support; but that without aid from his country he must apply to the Town for his support as he can no longer earn his daily bread
Hartford Aug t 30 th 1821
Cato X Kents mark

order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of of May 1820 = That he the said Gato Kent of August 1777 in the State of Connecticut in the believed in the Regim t commanded by Col. Charles Webb Regiment = that he served till the end of the war in June 1783 - cannot say = knows he was transferred to the Reg t commanded by Col. Sam l B. Webb in s d June 1783 at or near West Point was honorably discharged from the said service. I was in the battle of Germantown Gato X Kent's mark.
Sworn to and declared by said Gato Kent on the 1 st day of Sept r 1821 before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
thirteen dollars and
I, Thomas Chester
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 3 d day of September 1821
Thomas Chester
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hartford.

Ch Butter

Declaration State of Connecticut Hartford County } S. Hartford In this 29 th day of September A D 1838, Person- ally appeared before the Court of Probate for the district of Hartford in the County of Hartford, & State aforesaid; Beulah Kent, a resident of said Hartford, aged seventy four  seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to Law; doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7 th A D 1838, enti- tled "An act granting half pay and pen- sions to certain Widows;" That she is the Widow of Cato Kent, late of said Hartford, now deceased, who was a private Soldier in the Army of the Revolution & served in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, & who was pensioned for his services therein under the act of 1818, & placed on the Pension Roll Jan y 7, th A D 1822.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Cato Kent, at the house of Ralph Pomroy Esquire, in the city of Hartford, in the County & State aforesaid on the 16 th day of Septem- ber Seventeen hundred & Ninety. There was present, at her marriage, beside Esq, Pomroy & his Wife, his son, & daugh- ter Eunice Pomroy, now Mrs Eunice White wife of Dyer White Esq, of New Haven,

and Miss Keppy Olcott a neighbor & an intimate friend of Miss Eunice. but all the witnesses, are dead, except Mrs White of New Haven; but as she is an excellent Lady, and not worn out and broke to pieces like an old soldiers wife, I trust her evidence will support what I declare to be true, in regard to my Marriage with Cato. I have not many records, I was not learned to write, and have depended on the strength of my memory & what I tell in the court in relation to the time of my Marriage, is the truth. I told under the solemnities of an oath, and supported as it is, by the evidence by the evidence of Mrs White, she trusts she trusts it will be believed.
She further declares, that her husband, the aforesaid Cato Kent died in said Hartford in the month of June, Eighteen hundred & twenty nine; & that she has never again married.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place, previous to the first of January 1794; viz, at the time above stated.
In presence of Josse Charlton Nathaniel Goodwin.
Beulah her X Kent mark
Sworn to, and subscribed on the day & year above written, Before said probate Court

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the Declarant is the surviving Widow of Cato Kent, the before named pensioner; & that she was lawfully married to him, as she has stated in the foregoing declaration, and that, the said Cato Kent, died, in said Hartford in the month of June, Eighteen hundred & twenty nine, & that, Beulah Kent the declarant still remains his widow, & has never again intermarried.
In testimony whereof, I Nathaniel Goodwin, Clerk of the Probate Court for the District of Hartford, in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut do hereunto, subscribe my name, and affix the Seal, of said Court at said Hartford this second day of October 1838 -
And I certify that in the age of Beulah Seventy two was written on an erasure of what was first written Seventy four & I further certify that Jesse Charlton Esq before whom the annexed deposition of William Whelman was taken is at this time & has been for more than three months last past a lawful Justice of the peace for said County of Hartford & that his signature to said certificate is his genuine signature known to me. Nathaniel Goodwin. Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford.

I William Whitman hereby certify that I cannot find any entry of the marriage of Oats Kent and Beulah Williams in the Public records, of said Hartford, in the county of Hartford under any date by diligent search & I further certify that for Seventy years previous to the year 1820 when a new law requiring all marriages to be recorded went into operation the practice of recording marriages which had been generally observed down to the period of about 1750, appears to have nearly ceased & no suspicion arises against the claims of any persons that they were married at a given time from the fact that it is not entered in our town records.
W m Whitman, Regist r & Attest _____ Town-Clk.
And I William Whitman, above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk & Register of & for the town of Hartford in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut & that the above statement respecting the public records of said town is true
Attest: W m Whitman, Town-Clk & Regist r .
State of Connecticut Hartford County } S. Hartford on this 9 th Day

of September A D 1838 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Newford aforesaid; William Whitman Esq, who has signed the foregoing certificates in my pres- ence & he then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me.
Jesse Charlton Justice of the Peace
Sworn & subscribed before me Benjamin Root

I, Henry Seymour, a resident of Hartford in Hartford County & State of Connecticut hereby certify That I well knew Cato a colored man called Cato Hook; I assisted him in procuring his pension as may be seen by referring to his papers, which were forwarded by me, at the last time Cato was a pensioner. And I am well knowing to the fact that Cato was married to Beulah, now his widow; they, Cato and Beulah his wife have both labored for me, and my family and from the best calculation I can make of the times when I was in Hartford for I was in the countinghouse, of Richardson Sands & Company, until after the War, I then went to New York & staid till May 1786, I then staid at home, & was at home in the year Ninety I have no records of Cato's Marriage, but I have not any doubt that the widow is correct as to the time & that she was married as early as the year 1790, & they continued to live together from the earliest period I knew them, down to the time of Cato's death, he was drowned in the Sum- mer of 1829.
I was well acquainted with Ralph Pomroy of this town, he was a Magistrate for several years, I recollect Miss Eunice Pomroy his daughter she is a lady who has always sustained a high character. Hartford Octm 2. 1835
Henry Seymour

State of Connecticut
Hartford County To Hartford
On this 2 nd day of October A 1838 personally appeared before me Jesse Charlton a Notary Public of and for the State of Connecticut, Henry Seymour Esq who has signed the annexed certificate & then and there made solemn oath to the truth of the same, and he is a credible person well known to me.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix my Seal of Office on the day & year first named.
Attest Jesse Charlton Notary Public
Beulah Kent
Caleb Kent 2450
Henry Seymour
Beulah Kent
mission of Caleb
Con.
act of July 38
March 1790
Dec 1829
Allow $50 per an
Jesse Charlton
East Windsor
Con.

August 31, 1931
BA-J/WWL
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.36169, that Cato Kent(the name also appears as Cato Negro), a black man, enlisted in the State of Connecticut in August, 1777, served as a private in Captain Samuel Granger's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment, and a part of the time as waiter to Lieutenant Austin, of same regiment, and in Colonels Zebulon Butler's and Samuel B. Webb's Connecticut Regiments, was in the battle of Germantown and was discharged in June, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 1, 1821, at which time he was aged fifty-eight years and resided in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.
He died in June, 1829, in Hartford, Connecticut.
The soldier married September 16, 1790, in Hartford, Connecticut, Beulah Williams.
Soldier's widow, Beulah, was allowed pension on her application executed September 29, 1838, while residing in Hartford, Connecticut. At that time it was stated that she was aged seventy-two years; in 1821 the soldier stated that she was then aged about fifty years; in 1843, it was stated that she was aged seventy-eight years and in 1848, eighty years. No explanation is given for these discrepancies in age.
There is no reference to children.
Date of widow's death not in a B
This history to be furnished if ever called for. It was written just to have a record of negroes.

Hartford, Connecticut, 3 d October, 1850.
I Beulah Kent, declare that I am a Pensioner of the United States and the widow of Cato Kent who served in the army of the American Revolution, that I believe that an increase of pension is due to me as the widow of said Cato Kent and that I claim such increase of pension as may be due.
her Beulah Kent Mark
State of Connecticut
Hartford County } ss Hartford
Be it known that on this 3 d day of October 1850 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for said County Beulah Kent above named and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the Declaration by her signed in my presence, and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the declarant and know she is the Widow of Cato Kent & a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States
Henry Fowler Justice of the Peace

STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
I, JOHN P. C. MATHER , Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That
Henry Fowler is, and since the fourth day of July last past hath been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed and commissioned,....having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations.
And I further Certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said Henry Fowler to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford this 3 rd day of October , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty.
John P. C. Mather Secretary of State.

In to p 91. Dec 9 p 80 per am Comg 1 July 1848,
Hon D. Fowler Ho of R

Hall River Nov 21 st 19 th 1850
Col. J. L. Edwards - Commissioner of Pensions Sir
Herewith I forward the application of Beriah Hunt widow of Capt. Hunt of Conn te a pensioner for an increase of pension. Said Capt. Hunt was a pensioner under the law of 1818 at $96 dollars a year. The widow claims an increase to the amount her husband received during his lifetime, in full and this claim is made in pursuance of law --
Please forward me the certificate for the increase --
I have the honor to be Truly yours --
Orin Howland --

B. Root
Payment to be made at Hartford by
Horace Goodwin Esq Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Connecticut .
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 301 Vol. 1 .
S. J. Perkins Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Bulah Kent, widow of Cato Kent, who was a Private _____ in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum, commencing on the 4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this Tenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty Eight .
W. L. Marcy
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
J. S. Carrands Commissioner of Pensions. By H. S. Evans

Wartford June 3 rd 1843
Sir Herewith I transmit the Declaration of Erasmus Hook Esq overseer of Mary Belding and the Declarations of Beulah Kent and Mary Fox late pensioners under the Act of 7 July 1838 in order to obtain pensions under Act of 3 rd March 1843. If their papers are found to be correct please forward Certificates to me
I am Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Henry Fowler
J. J. Edward Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Harvey Grant Coxxm
I give a certificate in the case of Lucy Grant, died. at 3 d March 1843 payable up to 3 d May 1843, when she died; payable to the children of said Lucy, viz. Aaron Grant, Harvey Grant, Lucretia Brewster & Sam l P. Grant. $60.54 per share
To John Charlton Esq d Windsor Vt.
.. 49972
1276 = 64  1276 = 64
All these names are in the claim of Aaron Grant, also date of widow's death. So no need to compare. Let this paper remain in this claim. It was found in claim of Aaron Grant, No. 17967

State of Connecticut Hartford County } Is Hartford On this day of 1843, personally appeared before me the subscribing authority; Beulah Kent, a resident of said Hartford aged years; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed the 3 rd of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Cato Kent, late of said Hartford who served as a private soldier, in the Connecticut line of the Continental Army, for more than two years, as may be seen by the proof sent with her said husband's declaration accompanying proof under act of 1818. That she was pensioned for the services of her said husband, under the act of July 7 th 1838, at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum. She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Cato Kent.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before me & I certify that the declarant is personally known to me as the person who received a pension under the act of July 7 th 1838.
State of Connecticut Hartford County } Is Hartford.

3682
Connecticut
Beulah Kent
widow of Cato Kent dec who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 1829 of Hartford in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the Co commanded by Captain  of the reg commanded by Col Mills in the Conn line for 2 years .
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn. at the rate of 80 Dollars  Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of July 1839 to Jesse Carlton East Windsor Hill, Ct
Arrears to the 14th of Mar 1839 $ 240.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep '39 40.00 $280.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D.M. Curdy , Clerk; Book A. Vol. 1. Page 191.

1320:
Connecticut
Deulah Kent
widow of Keats Kent
who was a Private
in the Conn. line
for 2 years
Rev Aug 24
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of August, 1843 and sent to
W. Fowler
Hartford Conn.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 2.
Vol. 1. Page 71.

35.
Connecticut
Beulah Kent. widow of Caty Kent, who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of June 1848 and sent to
H. Frowler Hartford Conn.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 301 Vol. 1
let to Mrs. C. Frowler, Dec 2, 1830
Reported

I Fanny Pratt a resident of Hartford in the State of Connecticut do hereby depose and say, That I was acquainted with Cato Hunt & Beulah more than Sixty years ago.
I am well knowing to the fact that the said Cato Hunt, and the said Beulah were married together Forty Eight years last fall: I then had my first child Richard Walsh he was then about two months old, he was born the 14 th of July 1790 & was fortyeight years old last July. I did not go to the wedding myself, but I heard they were going to be married, and the evening they were married I remember very well it rained very hard, and one of my companions, viz. Dinah Wadsworth, was going; & came & borrowed my gloves to wear to the wedding: & on her return, she told me that she had been to the wedding & how wet they got in returning home.
The said Dinah Wadsworth has been dead, near thirty years.
I have no family record but but remember the true ages of my children & distinctly remember, that Richard was a Baby at that time. I was Sixty seven last February & he was fortyeight last July. In presence of Maria C. McLean
Fanny X Pratt mark
State of Connecticut Hartford County } ss Hartford On this 6 th day of May 1839, personally appeared before me Fanny Pratt

and then & there made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me
In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name, & affix my Seal of Office on the day and year above named.
Attest Josse Charlton Notary Public

Forwarded
Jesse Charlton Esq. 16
East Windsor
Conn.

New Haven Apr. 26. 1839.
Jesse Charlton Esq r
Sir
As you may wish to preserve Mr Edwards' letter I will just write a few lines on the same paper, I cannot recollect any circumstances further than I stated in the certificate perhaps some one in Hartford may know when Bullock  she left after Ephraim Boats but I never knew where she lived afterwards
Respectfully yours
Emine White
Mrs Emine J. White
Mrs of Dyar White Esquire New Haven Conn.
paid 10

East Windsor Hill Post office, Hartford County Connecticut.
Oct 10 th 1838.
Sir.
I herewith send the application of Bulah Kent for a pension.
The signature of Gov. Ellsworth and Senator Niles you will know, without the Seal of State.
I am Sir most respectfully your obedt. Servt.
Jesse Charlton
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J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions. Washington D. C.

1821 52 71-9-

John Mix of Farmington in Hartford County, State of Connecticut, do declare and say that I served as a commissioned officer in the Connecticut line of the Revolutionary army, from January 1777, until the fall of the year 1783, at which time the Connecticut line was disbanded; — that I remember a black man sometimes called Lato Kent, and sometimes Lato Negro, in the 2 d Regiment of said Connecticut line, which was in the year 1778 commanded by Col. Zebulon Butler; — but to what company in said Reg t he belonged, I have now no distinct distinct recollection, or for what term of service he was enlisted I do not recollect, but my impression is, that it was for three years, or during the war; — I am confident that his name was borne on the returns, Lato Kent, and Lato Negro, sometimes one and sometimes the other; — in the year 1780 or 1781, this Reg t was blended and with another Connecticut Reg t commanded by Col. Sam l B. Webb; — the name of this man will, I have no doubt, be found on the muster and pay rolls of said Webb's Reg t in 80 or 81; — Lato is now a broken down old man, and scarcely remembers the name of a single officer of either of the Regiments in which he served; — I was in both of the above said Regiments, and have recollection of Lato. —
John Mix. —

State of Connecticut, th Hartford County & Hartford June 4. 1824.
Personally appeared John Mize and made Solemn Oath to the truth of the several facts as stated in the foregoing writing by him subscribed, according to his best knowledge, recollection, and belief.
Subscribed before me. Elisha Colb Justice of Peace Sept 3d 1821. Bb. Bb.
[Faint, mirrored bleed-through text from the reverse side of the page, mostly illegible.]

Personally appeared Maj. Izaak Parsons of Albany in the state of New York late of Hartford state of Conn - merchant of full age - who deposes that he recollects Capt. Kent of S. Hartford, and that he is the same Capt. Kent who served in the Army of the Revolution it appears from the deponent's best recollection that he belonged to Capt. Sam l Granger's Company in Col l Charles Webb's Prof. Genl. Frederick Hunt- ington's Brig e of the Connecticut line raised on the Continental establishment in the year 1777 - and that he was a waiter to a Lieut y Austin of S. Prof. Capt. was young and appears to be very ignorant of the different transfers that were made in S. line - The S. Prof. first commanded by Col l Charles Webb was afterwards commanded by Col l Deborah Mather and afterwards annexed to Col l Saml l B. Webb's Prof. of the same line. in each of which the deponent served as an En st or Lieut y but cannot trace with certainty - any transfers of S. Capt. but is well persuaded that he served more than one year in the S. line - and for that the deponent ought not - City of Hartford May 3. 1821 — Izaak Parsons
Hartford County ss. Hartford May 3. 1821
Personally appeared Izaak Parsons & made oath to the truth of the above deposition, by him written & subscribed, before me
Henry Seymour Jr. Judge

I Thomas Chester clerk of the county court or court of common Pleas of the county of Hartford & State of Connecticut do certify that Henry Seymour Esq. on the 3 d day of May 1821 was a Justice of Peace of said county & I believe that the signature of his name as aforesaid is his signature, & that Elisha Hall Esq.
on the 1 st day of June 1821 was & ever since has been a Justice of Peace of said county & that the signature of his name on a paper marked Sept 3 o 1821 Bb. Hb. is his signature - witness my hand & the seal of said court. Hartford Sept 3. 1821                      Thomas Chester clerk

Patrick Kent Conn. Aet 1815. d. 1829 when poor Died June 21, 1829 & poor
A. H. S.

East Windsor Hill Hartford County, Connect
May 7 th 1839.
Sir.
In your letter of the 20 th of April 1839, In relation to the application of Beulah Kent widow of Gato Kent you desire, if possible, that such events, as some way take hold upon a record, may be re- lated & relied on. I sent your letter to Mrs White & recieved a few lines in answer; which I transmit. I enquired also at what time she left Mr Root, & found that she continued to reside there until several years after her marriage, & the exact time of her leaving I did not find.
The following circumstances have weight on my mind.
Beulah Kent is a woman of piety & a member of the Congregational Church in Hartford, & her principal Witness, Mrs White, is a woman of an excellent character, was formerly the wife of the Rev Dr Basset, head of the Cornwall School, for the Education of Missionaries to the Heathen, & after his death she married Dyer White, Esq, formerly Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of New Haven.
She testified unequivocally that she witnessed the marriage at the time she was attending Dr Chapins School in Hartford.
Dr Chapin knows when he left the School in Hartford: he went to New Haven im- mediately after, as Tutor in Yale College, is a Doctor in Divinity; The Gov t & Judge Niles certificate of the character of Doct Chapin I sent with the application at first.
The time when I went to school to different Masters, is as distinctly impressed on my mind as any other event I am not more

certain in regard to my own marriage or to the birth of my children, as to the exact time they took place. And I have no reason to doubt that the same is true in relation to Mrs Whites recollections. I think you will find the same in your own recollections. I have also taken & sent the deposition of Fanny Pratt of Hartford, who was very clear in her recollections of the time of the marriage, from it being when her first child was but two months old.
I have had occasion before, to speak of the state or condition of the Records in Hartford Connecticut that from about the year 1750 to 1820 no marriages scarcely were placed on record. The old Secretary of State, George Wyllis, who was also Town clerk recorded that of his sons, Col o Ezekiah Wyllis in the year 1785. The parish Records are also entirely lost from 1774 to 1817.
See Town Clerks Certificates in this case re Dr Weaver, in the case of Timothy Dods, widow & James Sheldons James Andersons &c.
I examined the records also, in Hartford, in relation to the time of the birth of Richard Walsh but I found the records as imperfect respecting Births as of Marriages and found no record of this.
I am Sir, very respectfully Your obed t Servant Jesse Charlton
J L Edwards Esq. Commissioner of

1754
Bendah Kent
$80 per an
H. Fowler
Hartford
ba

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of March 1843 granting pensions to for One year widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7. 1838.
State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss. Hartford
On this 23 rd day of May 1843 before the Subscribed a Notary Public in & for the county aforesaid personally appeared Beulah Kent a resident of Hartford in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut aged Seventy eight years who being first 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 Act of Congress passed on the 3 rd March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Gats Kent who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th March 1818. That she received a pension as his widow under the Act of 7 July 1838 at the rate of eighty dollars per annum commencing 11 March 1836 & terminating 11 March 1841. Certificate issued 30 th July 1839 which has been surrendered to the Pension Agent in Hartford Conn.
She further declares that she is still a widow. Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written before me and I certify that I am personally acquainted with the declarant and know that she continues the widow of Gats Kent
X her Beulah Kent mark
Henry Fowler Notary Public
(Signature)

State of Connecticut Office of Secretary of State
I do hereby certify that Henry Noorhe Esq. is, and on the 23 d day of May last past was, a Notary Public within & for said State duly appointed & commissioned, as appears of record in this office - and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of the said State this third day of June Eighteen hundred & forty three.
Noah A. Phelps Secretary of State

Adm.
Admitted
Beulah Kent
Harford Conn.
Henry Fowler Hartford Conn.

Declaration, In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of 2 d February 1848, entitled an Act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution
State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss. Hartford
On this 25 th day of March 1848 personally appeared Before me A Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid Beulah Kent a resident of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut. Aged about eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2 d February 1848, granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of Cato Kent who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and a Pensioner under the Act of March 18 1818 -
That she received a Pension as his Widow under the Act of 17 June 1844 at Eighty dollars per annum.
She further declares that she is still a Widow.
Sworn to and subscribed on Beulah X Kent the day and year above written
Before me Henry Fowler Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut.
I, JOHN B. ROBERTSON, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern: That Henry Fowler is, and since the 20th day of June last past hath been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State; duly appointed and commissioned,---having full power and authority by the laws of said State to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations.
And I further certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said Henry Fowler to be genuine!
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 5 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
John B. Robertson
Secretary of State.