Cato - CATO2

Cato - CATO2

1774

negro boy named Cato age 12

Enslaved

Male

East Hampton

David Gardiner (6)

Inventory of David Gardiner, 1774. East Hampton Library Long Island Collection.

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https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15281coll2/id/17942/rec/28

Inventory of David Gardiner. Account in Gardiners of Gardiner's Island, p. 105: "I think it was the hard winter of 1779-80. I lived with my mother and father-in-law Esqr Isaac Conklin Sometime in the spring of 1780 there came a party of the British, about 15 or 20, under Lieut. Darby into Amagansett, on their way to Montauk, after deserters. . . one gun was shot . . . The ball went into the fireplace & had like to kill Cato, a Negro, who was stirring up the fire."

The 1840 U.S. Census for East Hampton lists Cato Gardiner as a free person of color aged 55-100. If he were the same Cato as described in the 1780 event, he would have been about 78 years of age in 1840.

ca, 1762

1774