Description
Peter Hayden: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company D, Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company D.
✦ Widow Pension: #427,505, Certificate #338,023
(Researcher's note: Peter Hayden enlisted at Leavenworth Fort Scott, Kansas on August 8, 1862, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company D.
On November 19, 1866, Sina W. Roberts of Clay County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #58 for enlisted slave Peter Hayden and swore an oath of allegiance before Clay County Notary Public L. W. Roberts. Roberts claimed he had acquired title to Hayden by “…I traded off a Negro man I owned and gave $150 difference between him and the said boy Peter Hayden, and obtained my title to Peter Hayden in that way, the original Bill of Sale is herewith attached."
"Know all men by these presents that I, Boanerges Roberts, have this day for and in consideration of a Negro man named Brooks, a slave for life aged about 31 years and the sum of $150 to me in hand paid, sold and delivered to Sina W. Roberts a Negro man slave for life named Peter and aged about 31 years. In witness whereof I have herewith affixed my hand and seal this 7th day of January A.D. 1857. Boas. Roberts, attested by T. S. Dabney."
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
7/7/1890