Here's the rest of the pension files from U. S. Archives on George and Henry
Cato.
George:
Letter from Edmund Key, Chales Co., Md. Court, 5 Jun 1821 states that George
Cato's application had been returned to the court of Charles Co. with
objections of Mr. Edwards (James L. Edwards, Pension Office, War Depart.) on
grounds that the court had omitted to certifiy the value of the property
enumerated (The document this is refering to is not in this file.). Edmund Key
states that the property belongs to George Cato's childern.
Letter to the Governor and Council of Md. from M. J. Stone (possibly Stowe) of
Charles Co. court dated 21 Mar 1795. The letter states that in 1778 Col.
Grayson and the Surgeon General discharged George Cato with a recommendation
for invalid or half pay so long as the rheumatic pains should continue. The
rheumatic pains did continue and had rendered him incapable of labor. The
reason that George Cato hadn't been an applicnat before this time is that he
had endeavored to do without it but his infirmity and indigence render him
incapable of doing so. On the bottom of the page is a note dated 11 Apr 1795
that certifies that Geo. Cato is deprived the use of the use of his limbs by a
(disease ?) in one of his knees and hips. Signed G. R. Brown
Letter dated 7 May 1810 from a doctor whose signature is the normal doctor's
chicken scribble (maybe Dr. Henry could translate for us) states that George
Cato is very infirmed from a long standing and sevre attack of the rheumatism.
He has a numerous family of childern entirely dependent on him for support.
Letter from George R. Leiper dated 19 Apr 1810. Leiper states that he was at
Valley Forge Contonment some time in Apr of 1778 "at Col. Grayson's quarters
(being a log cabin hut) saw several invalid soldiers discharged by Dr. Cockran
(Leiper's spelling) among whom I respectfully recollect George Cato to be
one". Leiper stated that he knew George Cato from the time of his enlistment
with Capt. Smallwood.
Letter from H. Brawnen, Port Tobacoo, dated 11 Oct 1801 to James L. Edwards at
the Pension Office. Brawnen is inquiring on the fate of the application of
George Cato "a young gentleman who lives with me sent his papers in my
absence".
Henry Cato:
Well boys and girls, as Gomer says, surprise, surprise. The Henry Cato in this
file who stated that he was 77 0r 78 as of Mar 1834 says that he is a free man
of color having been born free and his father was a Catawba Indian and his
mother was a Mustein (that's a new one on me can someone enlighten me on this
term. I had several people look at this at the archives and they all came up
with the same spelling on this word.) This Henry signs with his mark + and has
a son William who signs with x and a grandson William Jr. who signs with +.
Anyway I don't think this is the Henry y'all were looking for.
And now for other things. I also looked at the roster of service records and
found the following Cato names:
Moulton Cato- drummer, 4NY Regt.
George Cato- pvt.,Grayson's Regt., Cont. troops
James Cato- pvt.,12 Mass. Regt.
Lewis Cato/Cater - pvt.4Va
Major Cato- pvt.,1 Conn. Regt.
Prince Cato- pvt., Ny, Willet's NY Regt. and 2Conn Regt
William Cato- sgt., 2 Md. Regt.
I didn't look at the individual files as I didn't know if this was ground
someone had already covered. If not, let me know and I'll look at the files
next time I'm at the archives.
I have two 1860 census entries I looked at Thursday.
John W. Kimbrough married to Fetna Cato ( daughter of Green Cato).
20 July 1860 Greene Co., Ga., Greenesboro Post Office, J. Davison Jr.,
enumerator.
old written page number 73 crossed out. new written page number 523.
dwelling number and family number 78
Jno. W. Kimbrough 49 m farmer 4200 19460 Ga.
Franah '' 48 f
Ga.
Locket M. " 23 m physician Ga.
Jno. P " 19 m
Ga. in school
Marietta " 17 f
Ga. "
Wm. " 14 m
Ga. "
Henrietta " 10 f
Ga. "
Frank " 9 m
Ga. "
The reason I mention this is Fetna recorded as Franah and Frank the 9 year old
who I have not seen listed. Thought someone else had not seen these.
The second census is:
Luamber J. May married to Emily Cato (youngest child of Green Cato)
25 July 1860 Washington Co., Ga., Sandersville post office, W. G. Robson,
enumerator
old written page number crossed out 183, new written page number 291.
dwelling number 1006 family number 986
Leander J. May 35 m farmer 1250 1000 Ga. can not read
or write
Emily " 36 f Ga.
Reuben F. " 10 m Ga.
in school
Mary " 8 f Ga.
"
Martha " 6 f Ga.
"
Anamarintha " 4 f Ga.
William " 2 m Ga.
James E. " 5/12 m Ga.
The census index lists Luamber as Leander I. May but the I on the census looks
like a J to me. Also, I hadn't seen his name as Leander before. I would think
that this was his name rather than Luamber.
I included these two census records because of the points I highlighted. If
this is old info to everybody else.......oh well, write it off to a
keyboarding exercise for me.
Note to Bonnie: I don't know if the msg I sent you about Lewis L. Cato's
children on the chart was not received because of the problem at my end or you
just haven't had a chance to get to it yet. However, just in case my msg got
sent to the twilight zone here's my correction:
Mary Toombs (Molly) Cato, b. 25 Apr 1867 daughter of Lewis L. and Martha Jane
Cato was omitted. She should be listed after Eugene Toombs Cato. Mary was
married but I have not found her spouse yet.
Tom