Cato
Title
Cato
Description
1774
negro boy named Cato age 12
Sex
Male
Location or Address
East Hampton
Status
Enslaved
Enslaver or Household
David Gardiner (6)
Birth Date
ca, 1762
Misc. Date
1774
Source/s
Inventory of David Gardiner, 1774. East Hampton Library Long Island Collection.
Page 4
Links
https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15281coll2/id/17942/rec/28
Biographical Text
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.
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.
Collection
Citation
“Cato,” Plain Sight Project, accessed March 28, 2023, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/686.