Description
James Banyan enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 20, 1864, and mustered into the Independent Battery, USCT Light Artillery as a Private. On December 1, 1866, John D. Pepper of Marshall Township, Platte County, Missouri signed claim for compensation #162 for an enlisted slave James Banyan and swore an oath of allegiance before Platte County notary public James J. Hitt in Weston, Missouri.
Pepper claimed he had acquired title to James Banyan by "...purchase from the Administrator of the Estate of Notley Duvall at Platte City, Missouri, in the year 1843, at public sale." (Note: Notley Duvall died in April 1852 and John D. Pepper was the Administrator)Date(s) of Creation
11/1/1855
