Description
Adam Spencer: 79th U. S. C. T. Infantry, Company F, Private. Additional service: 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, Company F. Died August 21, 1929, at Alton, Illinois.
✦ Invalid Pension: #894,744, Certificate #629,413
(Researcher's note: Adam Spencer enlisted at Fort Blunt, Cherokee Nation, on July 20, 1863, and was mustered as a Private into the 79th USCT Infantry, Company F.
On November 16, 1866, Peder Nelson of Washington Township, Buchanan County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #465 for enlisted slave Adam Spencer "Andrew" and swore an oath of allegiance before Buchanan County notary public Robert Boyle in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Peder Nelson claimed he had acquired title to "Andrew" (Adam Spencer) by “…purchase from Columbus Spencer as per Bill of Sale dated 17 April 1850 herewith filed.” Bill of Sale: "Know all men by these presents that I have this day sold a Negro boy named Andrew, 12 years old, to Peder Nelson for the sum of $900; said boy is sound in body and mind, title warranted good. Columbus Spencer, St. Joseph, April 17, 1850." Columbus Spencer and numerous Platte County Spencers were enslavers.
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
8/12/1890