Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,693, Samuel W Cate, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Cate, Samuel W.
S. 29693.
CONTENTS

27209 27 Massachusetts
Samuel W. Cate Mass
Salem, in the State of he was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Arnold of the Reg t commanded by Col. Wingate in the N.H. Reg t time for
9 months
mi. N.H. Military
89 Sp y
Enscribed on the Roll of Mass the rate of .30 - Dollars — Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of March 1834 — and sent to. Joseph G. Waters. Salem Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 $ 90.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 14 th Sep. " " 15 $ 105.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 2 Page 14

Sam. W. Cate 29630
Advised Private 9 months on roll of Capt. Arnold's Company Col. Munger's Bgt.
Joseph G. Waters Salem Mass.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS: COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss.
On this eighteenth day of February A. D. 183 2 personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, Samuel Cate , a resident of Salem , in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 89 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
In 1776 he enlisted at Portsmouth N.H. for the term of five months in Cap. Arnolds company of Militia in the Regiment commanded by Col. Wingate. He marched with said Company to No. 4 now Charlestown N.H. and from thence to Lake Champlain & Ticonderoga, and was stationed there till his term of enlistment had expired. In 1777 he enlisted again, at Portsmouth N.H. for two months, in the company of Captain Merrill of Stratham and marched to Bennington, Vermont. In 1781 he again enlisted at Portsmouth in the company of Captain Joseph Parsons of Rye, New Hampshire in the battalion commanded by Major Marston of Deerfield, and marched with said Company to Number 4 and thence to Fort Ann on Lake Champlain. He was a private soldier during the whole of the service thus performed by him - That at this distance of time and place when & where the

foregoing services were rendered, he is unable to obtain the testimony of his fellow soldiers who were engaged with him, in the various services referred to. That to the best of his recollection, his term of service in Captain Arnolds company, was for five months, in Capt. Merrill's company - two months and in Capt. Parson's company two months, making altogether the term of nine months. The declarant further states, that his name was enrolled, in the several companies, in which he rendered the foregoing services, and would refer to the rolls of the New Hampshire militia, in support of his declaration.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Samuel W. Cate
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
D. White JUDGE OF PROBATE.
We, William B Dodge a clergyman, residing in Salem aforesaid, and Joseph Waters Esquire, a magistrate, residing in Salem aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel W. Cate who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 89 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Wm. B. Dodge Joseph Waters
Subscribed and sworn to before
D. White Judge of Probate

And the said Court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Wm. Dodge who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Salem and that the said Joseph G. Martin who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at Salem and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
D. H. White J. B. Martin
I, NATHANIEL LORD Junior, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Gate for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eighteenth day of February , A. D. 1834.
Nath. Lord Jr.

22 Feb. 1884 Map.
OK rijina
James L. Edwards Esq. Commission of Pensions Washington

Salem Mass s Feb. 19 th 1834
Dear Sir.
At the request of Samuel Cate of this Town, a very aged and destitute person. I forward to you his application for a pension for services rendered by him, in the War of our Revolution. Such a prompt attention to it, as may be consistent with your numerous & arduous engagements will much oblige the petitioner.
Through your obed t Serv t Joseph G. Water
James L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions. City of Washington.

29 693 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29,693
Samuel W. Cuto
His Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 64
[Arrangement of 1870.]