Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1814, George Cato, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
bato, George
R. 1814
CONTENTS

State of Maryland, Charles County set, On this eleventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen personally appeared in Charles County Court then in session (being a court of records constituted such by the constitution and laws of the State of Maryland possessing jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount together with the power of fine and imprisonment) George Balo resident in Durham Parish in said County, who being being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he enlisted in the revolutionary war under Captain Herbert Smallwood in the sixteenth additional Virgi- nia regiment under Col. Grayson and was discharged in April 1778 in consequence of pain & lameness contracted in the service having served about twelve months, that he has not heretofore received a pension from the United States but made application to the Honorable Judge Key with a view to obtain a pension on the second day of June eighteen hundred and eighteen as will appear by the affidavit or certificate of said Judge filed in the Pension Office some time in last April or May. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any man- ner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring Myself within the provisions of an act of Representative 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 18 th 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 or property other than that is contained in the sched- ule hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit.
Schedule
Of pension from the State of Maryland of forty Dollars per Annum.
Witness Edmund Key
George (his) Mark Bate
That I have no trade and an rendered incapable by age and by weakens proceeding from the pains and lameness in my limbs as aforesaid from cultivating the earth is such manner as to procure a support. That I am myself in my sixty sixth age and have a wife aged about fifty six, and we are both living with our children a daughter and two small chil- -dren, a son aged about nineteen and another son a few years younger which said chil- -dren all together have one Negro woman aged about 40 years three children the eldest of whom is only six years old one mare & cows 4 hogs, 2 beds three or four chairs a few plates & dishes and a pot or Dutch oven. That previous to receiving the pension aforesaid from the state I had received a small pension from the County as a pauper for one year.

State of Maryland Charles County To all John Barnes Clerk of Charles County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now truly copied from the records of the said Court; And I do further certify it is the opinion of the said Court that the value of the Pension exhibited in the annexed Schedule is Forty Dollars per annum. JW
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of Charles County Court this twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
John Barnes Clk of Charles County Court

George Cato - App't for Pension W. Brown
Port Tobacco Charles County Md.
The Name of the applicant does not appear on the Rolls Remaining in this office, yet I know he is placed upon the pension List of the State of Md. Thos. Harney A. G. S. M.

Maryland Charles County Set
Be it remembered that on this second day of June 1818 before me the subscribed an Associate Judge for the first judicial District of the State of Maryland comprising the counties of Saint Marys Charles Prince Georges personally appears George Cato aged sixty five years a citizen of Charles County in the District & State aforesaid who being duly sworn on the Holy Gospel of Almighty God deponeth & saith that he enlisted on the 15th day of April in the year 1777 in the Company commanded by Captain Abby Smallwood of Col. Grogan's Regiment for the term of three years in the Army of the United States during the revolutionary war & was discharged on the fifth of April 1778 disabled by disease
Edmund Key
Maryland Charles County Set
Be it remembered that on this second day of June 1818 personally appears before me an Associate Judge for the first judicial District of the State of Maryland Nehemiah Crawford & makes oath on the Holy Gospel of Almighty God that he is well acquainted with George Cato the Deponent above mentioned & that he is in indigent circumstances crippled in his limbs by disease & unable to obtain a support by labour
Edmund Key

Prince George's County
Be it remembered that on this 20th day of April eighteen hundred & twenty personally appears before the subscriber an associate judge of the first judicial district of Maryland Henry Brown of Charles County who made oath that George Calo the person within named is on the half pay list of old soldiers by virtue of a resolution of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at December session 1818 & that said resolution passed whilst he was a member of said Legislature & that he has drawn for said Calo from the Treasury of Maryland several quarters pay -
Edmund Key
April 5 th 1820
It appearing to my satisfaction that George Calo within mentioned did serve nine months & upwards in the revolutionary war upon the Continental establishment as a common soldier against the common enemy & that he stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support I have the honor to transmit the proceedings in the case & the evidence taken before me to the Secretary at War in conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States in such case made & provided
Edmund Key

Maryland Prince George's County, ss. I hereby certify that the Honourable Edmund Key before shown the within Affidavit were made, and whose name is thereto affixed, was at the time of taking and signing the same, and now is, one of the Associate Judges of the first Judicial District of the State of Maryland composed of the Counties of Saint Mary's, Charles & Prince George's, and to all whom such as such and faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as elsewhere.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribed my name and affix the Seal of Prince George's County Court this tenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
A. G. Beall P. H. B.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1874
REJECTED
P. O. Geo. Cato
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Rejected - July 31. 1822. — W m H. E. Matthews, 3 d Auditor Office, informed that Cato's name cannot be admitted to the Pension Roll, on ac- count of his receiving a pension from the State of Maryland.

Geo. Dato.
Henry Browner Port. Lobacoa, Md.
Recd. 26 July 1891.
Repayment
Confir. - Recd.
Marked
6-7-11
Recd

Charles County ss. I do hereby certify, that on the 5th day of Sept r 1891, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of Maryland, personally appeared James B. Davis, known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing Certificate.
J. M. [Signature]

Altamont Dec. Nov. 20 th 1795
I do certify that George Boyle (to the best of my knowledge) was a Soldier in Captain Rob t Smallwoods Company of the Continental Army and wounded—
Sam Jones

The within mentioned George Cato I have known from his Infancy and have ever viewed him as a Person utter- ly incapable of discharging the Duty of a Foot Soldier or en- during the Fatigue and Hard Marches incident to the Infantry Service — exclusive of the Complaints which test within recited (by the Surgeon General Doctor Cochran who under our Military Establishment was authorized and very competent to judge of his Ina- bility and recommended his being discharged) he has ever been subject to a weakness in one of his Knees which is easily distinguished to be defective upon compa- -ring it with his other Knee — this must ever disqualify him for the rugged Duty of a Soldier — he is therefore recommended as a Person unfit to be substituted or Sub- ject to a Draught, as it would be imposing upon and burthening the Public to no purpose being conscious he would never pass our Military Muster as a Soldier given under my Hand the 13 th of March 1781.
W. Smallwood M c L.

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CATO, GEORGE (VA) R-1814

I do hereby certify that Mr George Galt has this Day Presented to me the Certificate of Doctors Tho J French & N P Gauson who are Regular Bred Physicians and that every reliance and confidence may be placed in what they have asserted, & that he has showed me another Certificate, with a number of signatures who are all respectable whom I am well assured have stated facts & from his Present Circumstances & my knowledge of him, believe him Justly Entitled to the Assistance of his Country, that he has in family Seven Five Children himself & Wife and some of them so small as to be unable to render any assistance, Given under my hand this 12 th Day of May 1810. Charles County Maryland
John Brant

Tho. Speake. Doctor May 10 th 1810.

I hereby certify that I have examined Geo: Cato, and find him to be much affected with the Rheumatism, so much so as to render him incapable of labouring, which is all the dependence he has for the support of a large family, of children - Given under my hand this 7 th May 1810
Thos. L. Speak Phys n

We the undersigned hereby certify, that we are acquainted with Geo Cato, who we believe was a Soldier in the late Revolutionary Army. we further believe he is labouring under infirmity, which renders him unable to support a large family of Children who is entirely dependant on him. Given under our hands this 17th day of May 1810
I well remember in 1777 1777 that George Cato marched with me to Camp & joined Capt. Smallwood company at the White Marsh Defeats, Franklin Genl
William Wilber
J. S. Smith
William Cato
Gustavus Brown
Isaac H. Shid
John E. Ford
Sam W. Franklin
Mr. Bacon
Alexander Green
Mr. Garrison
M. W. Dunnington
John Locke Oliver Densley
John B. Mills Junr.
James Boarman
Wm. Graham
Richd. Houstreet
Edward Hyl
Thomas B. Tubman
Edward Hamilton
Asias Wheeler
Geo. A. Davis

Henry H. McPherson Kenneth H. McKenzie
Frederick Luke Smulko
Alfred Johnson
Sam Chandler Thomas Rogerson
Agulla Franklin
Philip Stuart
John Busk
John F. Gray
Nichalous Ware
Daniel Gruninger
Walter M. Menchik
Joseph Gray
Estelle Adams
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I hereby certify that George Cato, Marched with me in the year 1777, under Capt Robert Smallwood, (then in the Militia service, to the white marshes, and after two months stay, I left him at that place in service the regular service
Given from under my hand, this 25 th day of May 1810.
John N. Craig

June 2. 1810
I hereby certify that I have examined George Cato, who appears to be much afflicted with the Rheumatism, that he is rendered thereby unable to labour for his support, and that, if a wife and four or five children, as represented to me, are entirely dependent on him for maintenance, they must suffer him under my hand the day and year above written
Sam l Hanson
I believe him to be a good Honest old Soldier, and from his affliction ought to be intitled to half pay which is said to be $40 per year and half clothing
Deans

State of Maryland Charles County ss I do hereby certify that Aaron Simmons a (Revolutionary Soldier), appeared before the Subscriber one of the State of Maryland's justices of the peace for Charles County afore- said and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that George Taylor enlisted in the Service of the United States under Capt. Webb Smallwood of 16 th Additional Vir- ginia Regiment Col. William Grayson Commander in the Spring of 1777; and continued in said service until the Spring of 1778, when he obtained his discharge at Valley Forge — Farther this deponent sayeth not —
Given under my Hand and seal this 14 th day of July 1821
Walker M. Millar, Sen d

State of Maryland Charles County Sc.
I hereby certify that Walter M c Millan Gentleman who appears to have given seal the within certificate and whose name is thereto subscribed, was at the time time of so doing one of the State of Maryland's Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly Commissioned and Qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in courts of Justice as elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Charles County Court this twenty fourth day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one,
John Barnes S d of Charles County Court

Having seen the papers of George Cato an Applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress & returned to the Court of Charles County with the objections of Mr. Edwards Street on the ground that this Court had omitted to certify the value of the property and enumerated. Rather than liberty to state that the property enumerated in the proceedings in said case in this Court is therein stated to be the estate & property of his children & not belonging to said Cato, a circumstance perhaps which escaped the observation of Mr. Edwards in the examination of the papers.
Charles County Court June 5 th 1821
Edmund Key

To his Excellency the Governor and Council of Maryland The petition of George Gato of Charles County, most respectfully and Humbly Shews.
That your petitioner enlisted himself a Soldier in the Continental army for three years under Capt. Hubbard Smallwood belong- -ing to Colonel Grason's Sixteenth Virginia Regiment in April 1777 and in December following had a violent Shell of Sickness and Continued all that winter with the Rheumatic pains. And in April 1788 Colonel Grason and the Serjt General on account of your Humble petitioner being rendered incapable of military duty gave him his discharge with a recommendation for invalid or half pay So long as the Rheumatic pains Should Continue which do Continue and has rendered him incapable of labour and the reason your petitioner has never been an applicant is that he has endeavoured to do without it. but his infirmity and indigence renders him incapable of doing so. Therefore your petitioner humbly begs that his Excellency and the Honourable Council take this his petition under their consideration and grant him half pay from the date of his discharge as your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.

At the request of George Cato and certify that he was enlisted in the army. That he has been and still is a cripple from Rheumatic fever (as I am told) I believe he ought to be on the Invalid establishment - M. S. Stone Charles County March 2. 1795
I certify that George Cato was in the Army
April 11 th 1795 I hereby certify that George Cato is deprived of the use of his limbs by a disease in one of his knees & hips which having arisen during his service in the late contest with the King of Britain, and continued ever since, gives reason to believe that it must continue through the rest of life
J. B. Brown
Charles County March 11 1795

Certificate May 7. 1810.

Port No. 7 May 1890
I hereby certify that on application of Geo- Cato, I have examined him & find him rendered very infirm, & almost incapable of any corpore- al exertion, from a long standing & severe attack of the Rheumatism. He has a numerous family of children entirely dependent on his exertion for support. Given under my hand this day & year above mentioned
W. C. McWhorter

Charles County 26 th May 1794 I know George Cato from the time he enlisted in the Continental Service down to the present time. I do hereby certify (from my own knowledge) that what is contained in the Certificate of Henry Barnes Esq r is a true representation of his pre- sent case & situation. — John Muschett
Charles County. June 3 d 1794. I do here by certify that I have known George Cato ever since his return from Camp which was in the year 1778 and has liv d toge r the great part of the time and that he has been afflicted with the Rheumatism so as to render him incapable of labour. — — — — — Geo Hall Fran s Ware

George Cato formerly a Soldier of Col Gray's Regiment having applied to me for a Certificate I hereby certify that I have examined him and find he is much afflicted with the Rheumatism which has rendered him lame and at times incapable of labor -
(D. Humphreys)
Paterson
May 15 th 1794
Charles County St. I do hereby certify, that I know George Cato (late a Soldier in the Continental army) before & since his enlistment; that he returned from the army in a very bad state of health, & that I have frequently seen him since, when he appeared lame by the Rheumatism and rendered incapable of earning a livelihood by labor.

State of Maryland
I do hereby certify, that I was at Valley Forge Cantonment some time in the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight, & at Col Graysons Quarters (being a log cabin hut) saw several Invalid Soldiers dis= charged by Doctor Cockran, among whom I per= fectly recollect George Gato to be one, the more especially as I knew him at the time of his enlistment with Capt Smallwood
Witness
Sam l W. Franklin
George R. Leiper 19 th April 1810

To James L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office War Department.

Sir
Port Wabacco October 11 th 1891
Will you be so obliging as to inform me of the fate of George Keats's application for a Pension. A young gentleman who lives with me sent in his papers in my absence, & not having heard from you, I have been apprehensive that they were improperly directed if so, please to let me know.
I am Sir respectfully yours
To James L. Edwards Esq. Pension office
H. Brannon
War Department

The testimony of two witnesses as to nine months services, required. See letter enclosed.
War Dept. Pension Office March 17. 1821.
The disposition of Robert Taylor, in favour of George Cato
Abd. Jones part of share owing rent

Maryland Charles County St.
Be it Remembred that on the 23 rd day of May 1818. personally appeared Robert Taylor aged about 66 or 67 years, and being first sworn on the Holy Evangelists of almighty God - deposeth and saith, that he was a comrade of George Bates, enlisted in the Revolutionary war, in the year 1777- in the Sixteenth Virginia Regiment, as a common soldier under Col. Grayson, and his Captain was Robert Smallwood - that he the said Bates joined the company in the month of April of the said year 1777 - and further this deponent saith not.
Sworn before Wm. E. Drumington one of the Justices of the peace for said county in the afor said state
Charles County to wit
Be it Remembred that on the 11 th day of May 1818 came Richard Crawford being first sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for the state of Maryland in and for the county of Charles

Charles County to wit
Be it Remembred that on the 11 th day of May 1818 came Richard Crawford being first sworn on the Holy evangils of Almighty God before the subscribers one of the Justices of the Peace for the state of Maryland in and for the County aforesaid, - and deposeth and saith that he well recollects of George Bates being a soldier in the Revolutionary war That the said George Bates joined the Regi- ment commanded by Col. Grayson, at the White Plains in Oct r , 1777. and was discharged in April 1778 - and further he this deponent saith Not -
Sworn before
Alan E. Dunnington

State of Maryland Charles County ss. I hereby Certify that Francis P. Dunnington Gentleman before whom the foregoing annexed Depositions appear to have been made, and whose name is subscribed to the same, was on the day of the dates thereof, and still is, one of the Justices of Maryland's Services of the peace in and for the County afore- said duly commissioned and sworn, and to all and right to be given as well in courts of Justice as elsewhere.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Charles County Court this 2 nd day of June Eighteen hundred and Eighteen.
John Barnes Clerk of Charles County Court