Description
Allen Embry a/k/a George A. Willis enlisted at Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 13, 1863, and was mustered as a Private into the 83rd USCT Infantry, Company A. On November 9, 1866, Benjamin F. Willis of Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #495 for enlisted slave Allen Embry and swore an oath of allegiance before Clinton County Circuit Court Clerk William Birney.
Willis claimed he had acquired title to George A. Willis alias Allen Embry by “…George A. Willis was born the slave of him the said Benjamin F. Willis claimant.”
Joseph Daffron and Moses Jennings of near Plattsburg, Platte County, swore under oath that Willis had owned Allen Embry for “10 years" and also swore oath that Willis was loyal to the U.S. Government and had defended it against the Confederate States of America. Clinton County Circuit Court Clerk William Birney certified that Willis, Daffron, and Jennings had personally appeared before him and swore an oath to the truth of the claim. (Benjamin Willis and Moses Jennings were Platte County enslavers.)Date(s) of Creation
11/9/1866
