Cato Marcy

Cato Marcy

Walpole, NH

According to the 1880 publication Walpole as it was and as it is,, Thomas Bellows once reminisced about the men who went to fight in Saratoga, NY, from his town of Walpole, NH.  He remembered the names of twelve residents but could not recall the name of the Black man who went with them.  The author of the town history, Aldrich, surmised that the Black man was most likely Cato Marcy who was a blacksmith on a farm near the old meeting house in Walpole at the time of the American Revolution (“now owned by B. E. Webster”).

According to New Hampshire, U.S., Revolutionary War Records, 1675-1835, a man named Cato Marcy of Walpole, NH, served as a private in the American Revolution at the age of 35.  Marcy was listed by muster master Thomas Sparhawk of Walpole.  He served from 1777 to 1779 under General John Stark of NH.

No further information has been discovered to date.

SOURCE MATERIALS

Aldrich, George. Walpole as it was and as it is. (1880), p.47— Archives.org

Knoblock, Glenn A. "Strong and Brave Fellows": New Hampshire's Black Soldiers and Sailors of the American Revolution, 1775-1784. (2003)

New Hampshire, U.S., Revolutionary War Records, 1675-1835 — Ancestry.com

U.S. Federal Census, 1790 - Ancetry.com