Hi all, sorry for the confusing first message...please delete it, as the formatting
apparently didn't go through. I hope this is better!!!!
Henry and all, here are a few comments re: Nehemiah Cato....and Needham Cato...
Best,
Cynthia
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From: HBrackinjr@aol.com<mailto:HBrackinjr@aol.com>
To: CATO-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:CATO-L@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: [CATO] Henry Cato, TN 1812
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>>Henry Brackin writes:
>>Here is a writeup I have in my Cato Booklet on Nehemiah Cato.
>>24-11A5 NEHEMIAH CATO, b. ca ?1790 was on the tax list of
Stewart Co., TN. in 1812, served in the War of 1812 in Capt.
>>Gray's Co., the same company that Henry Cato served in. This Co. marched to
>>Mobile and saw action in that area.
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There are two War of 1812 records under the name Nehemiah Cato. One is for service in a
State (TN) Volunteer Regiment. The other is for a Federal Regiment. These could be for
the same man, serving in both regiments, but I can't prove it either way as of yet.
1. Nehemiah Cato who served in the 26 TN Militia Infantry, as a private in Capt. James
Gray's Company. A pay roll record from the 26 TN Militia shows Nehemiah Cato paid for
June 2, 1812 through June 9, 1812. He may have served longer, but we find no other record
of Nehemiah in the TN Militia so far.
2. Nehemiah Cato who was a Federal soldier in the 1st/44th US Infantry, enlisting at
Clarksville as a private on the 14th of September 1814 for a five year term. A note in
his service record states that "the 44th US Infantry was made 1st Infantry after May
17/1815."
Nehemiah's Federal enlistment record states that he was age 24 at enlistment (in
Sept of 1814), born in Chester NC/SC ( both states are shown), 5' 4 1/2 " tall,
blue eyes, sandy hair, light complexion. He served the entire 5 year term, and his
service record shows him attached to various companies at New Orleans , Fort St. Philip,
Pass Christian, Camp Ripley LA and Fort St. Stephens.
His record shows him "absent on command at Fort St. Stephens since Jan (Jun?)
17/1816".
Nehemiah was honourably discharged from the US Army on the 14th of September 1819, at
Nashville. He was "settled with in full for his pay, subsistence, retained bounty
and travelling allowance, at Nashville on the 12th of January, 1820."
Nehemiah 1. and Nehemiah 2. may very possibly be the same man, but at this point there
is no sure-fire way to tell. I do note that these two service records do not overlap.
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>>He obtained a Military Land Grant, Warrant # 23,675, for 160 acres, dated
2/14/1825 in Faulkner Co., Ark.
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This bounty land was granted to Nehemiah for his service as a Federal Soldier. So the
Nehemiah who patented land in Arkansas in 1825 was definitely the Nehemiah who was a
Federal Soldier.
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>>I have no further record on him.
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There is a note in his Federal Service record at NARA: "See Pension Case". We
are working on locating this pension case.
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>>There is a Nehemiah Cato who apparently was
>>paid some money and partially paid in whiskey for work at the
>>Choctaw Trading Post in St. Stephens, Miss. Territory in 1816, 1817,
>>1818. This comes from Records of Choctaw Trading Post, St.
>>Stephens, Miss Territory 1816-1824, Book 2 compiled by Ben and
>>Jean Strickland This may be this Nehemiah but in the beginning I
>>rejected the idea because I was not convinced this Nehemiah was part
>>Indian (certainly not Choctaw) as this form of payment suggests.
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I would like to know where this "paid in whiskey" stuff comes from. I find
Nehemiah listed always as paid in cash, and never in whiskey. Am I missing something?
Do note that there are references to whiskey being purchased by the Trading House,
"for exclusive use of the soldiers while working." A little whiskey must have
been a perk of the job.
In reading the records of the Choctaw Trading Post (NARA Record Group T-500, 1803-1824),
Nehemiah the Federal Soldier (as listed "absent on command at Fort St. Stephens since
Jan (June?) 1816" in service record shown above) can be found several times in the
ledger of accounts paid. The books of the Trading Post were apparently balanced once a
quarter (end of March, June, September and December), with monies expended and persons
owed for services and/or goods listed and detailed in this ledger.
Nehemiah first appears in the Choctaw accounts on 30 September 1816. He is paid 6.00
for "60 days work rendered the Trading House, commencing with 8th July..."
31 Dec 1816: Nehemiah Cato paid 9.00 for 60 days work aiding to plank and caulk the
large boat and other work
30 June 1817: Nehemiah Catoe paid 15.30 for 72 days labor loading boats going to Mobile
with skins and returning with good...
30 Sept 1817: Nehemiah Caito paid 7.20 for 48 days preparing for a trip, unloading
boat, etc
30 Dec 1817: Nehemiah Cato paid 11.25 for 75 days service done on the New Factory
Buildings/Houses
31 March 1818: Nehemiah Cato paid 8.26 for services re: a trip
30 June 1818: Nehemiah Cato paid 11.25 for labor preparing/beating skins and going on a
trip with them to St. Stephens and back
31 Dec 1818: Nehemiah Cato paid 7.80 for 52 days work in the Skin house
31 March 1819: Nehemiah Cator paid 11.70 for 78 days rendered, folding and baling skins
He is last mentioned 30th September 1819, when he is listed as being paid 3.90 "for
26 days service rendered said house beating skins per his accnt dated 31 July 1819."
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>>Bonnie Palmer says that some of her family sold land in Arkansas that
>>appears to be the land Nehemiah received for his military service. They
>>were descendants of a Cato that was listed as Nelson in the 1850
>>census but is listed as Needham in 1860.
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Can anyone tell me exactly what this refers to? Is there a deed or estate in
Nelson/Needham's family that refers to the Arkansas bounty land of Nehemiah the
Federal soldier, or some land with the same coordinates? If anyone has the coordinates, I
can check it out and maybe we can tell whether this is Nehemiah's land, or not.
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>>Was he Needham or was he Nehemiah? I think he was Needham because he was born in
SC
>>according to the 1850 census. They were not one and the same person
>>because Needham served in the War of 1812 from Christian Co., Ky.
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Needham Cato served in the War of 1812 in the 1 Mounted (Caldwell's) KY Volunteers,
as a private in Capt. Thomas Alsbury's Company. According to his service record at
NARA, Needham was discharged on 30 October 1812 at Buseron, Indiana Territory. (Buseron is
now known as Busseron, located about 12 miles north of Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana. )
The distance from Needham's place of discharge (Buseron) to his place of residence is
given as 175 miles. He was paid for 8 days travel time home. I have not yet plotted the
distance 175 miles from Busseron, but it would be interesting to check and see just where
you land.
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>>My only explanation of Needham selling Nehemiah’s land is that
>>Needham had bought Nehemiah’s land. I have no deed to prove that
>>however.
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Another researcher has pointed out to me that, if Needham/Nelson or his descendants
really do sell Nehemiah's land in a later transaction, then they could be selling that
land as the heir or administrator of an estate. And also, that not all states required
land to be registered in a new name if the owner died and it was a son who remained on the
land. It would be interesting to check what the law was in Arkansas.
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>>Since finding his brother Burwell nearby in Wayne Co., Ms.
>>about the same time, I am now inclined to believe this Nehemiah in St.
>>Stephens, Mississppi Territory is the son of Daniel.
>>Henry
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I'm not sure. How does this fit in with Nehemiah being born in 1790 in Chester NC
or SC? What Cato was in Chester NC/SC who could have been Nehemiah's father? And
I'm not convinced that we know that Burwell in Miss is the same one in TN. Is there
some record that shows where this Burwell was born? And how do we know that Burwell is
Nehemiah's brother, if we don't know for sure who Nehemiah's father is?
It's all possible, but I just don't know. More work with the records might shed
some light on the problem.
Hope this is helpful, and maybe we will get lucky and find Nehemiah the Federal
Soldier's pension.
Cynthia
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