1866-1867 U.S. Colored Troops Slave Compensation Claims
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Description
William Simpson enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 14, 1863, and was mustered as a Private into the 83rd USCT Infantry, Company A. On November 13, 1866, Hugh Swaney signed claim for compensation #33 for enlisted slave William Simpson.
Swaney claimed he had acquired title by "...purchase of the mother and said William Simpson while an infant from William Paxton, Administrator of the Estate of James Willoughby, deceased, on the 1st day of June 1846."
Date(s) of Creation
6/1/1846
Other Names and Numbers
Other Names
Name Type
Enslaved
Other Name
William
Name Type
Free Blacks
Other Name
Simpson, William
Name Type
Enslaver
Other Name
Willoughby, James (William M. Paxton, Administrator of the Estate) conveys slave to Swaney, Hugh
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Number Type
Source Citation
Other Number
Military Service Records of United States Colored Troops: 56th-138th USCT Infantry, 1864-1866 (William Simpson, SCC Claim #0033)
