Description
Washington Fowler had enlisted at Island 63 on February 14, 1864, as a Private with the 56th USCT Infantry, Company F. On December 26, 1866, Horace Nolen of Buena Vista, Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #3843 for an enlisted slave named Washington "Wash" Fowler and swore an oath of allegiance before Buchanan County notary public Robert Boyle.
Horace Nolen claimed title to Washington Fowler "...in right of my wife Hannah Nolen, formerly Fowler, who acquired said slave with others as a gift from her father Ben F. Fowler of McNairy County, Tennessee, upon our marriage on September 8, 1849."
W. L. Chadwick and Samuel D. Talbot of St. Joseph, Buchanan County, testified under oath that Horace Nolen had owned Wash for "5 years" and also swore that Nolen was loyal to the U.S. Government and had defended it against the Confederate States of America. Buchanan County notary public Robert Boyle certified that Nolen, Chadwick, and Talbot had appeared before him and under oath swore to the facts and truthfulness of the claim. Claim appears to be a form from the law firm of Chipman, Hosmer & Co., Washington, DC. (Horace Nolen was listed as an enslaver on the 1850 Platte County Slave Schedule)Date(s) of Creation
12/26/1866
