Description
Jordan Porter: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company F, Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry.
✦ Widow Pension: #422,935, no Certificate indicated
(Researcher's note: Jorden Porter enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas on August 27, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company F.
On November 5, 1866, Jesse Miller of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #36 for enlisted slave Jorden Porter and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt.
Miller claimed he had acquired title to Jorden by “…said Jordan Porter was inherited by said claimant from the estate of his brother, now deceased, and has been the property of said claimant for the last 10 years, previously to his enlistment."
As of July 1, 2026, Civil War U. S. C. T. Pension Record case files are not currently available on the Internet and would need to be ordered from the National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/pre-ww-1-records.)Date(s) of Creation
5/15/1890