Description
Thomas Perry enlisted at Fort Scott, Kansas on August 9, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company A. On November 14, 1866, Levi Likins of Platte County, Missouri, signed a claim for compensation #161 for enlisted slave Thomas Perry and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County Circuit Court Clerk George W. Belt.
Likins claimed he had acquired title to Thomas Perry "...by purchase from Jonathan Hunt. Claimant had Bill of Sale but it was lost and never recorded. Said slave was purchased in the month of July 1857."Date(s) of Creation
7/1/1857
