Description
Joshua Fowler had enlisted on March 14, 1863 with the 56th USCT Infantry, Company F. On December 26, 1866, Horace Nolen of Buena Vista, Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #3844 for an enlisted slave named Joshua Fowler and swore an oath of allegiance before Buchanan County notary public Robert Boyle.
Horace Nolen claimed title to Joshua Fowler "...in right of my wife Hannah Nolen, formerly Fowler, who acquired said slave with others upon marriage from her father Ben F. Fowler of McNairy County, Tennessee, on September 8, 1849, as a gift to her."
W. L. Chadwick and Samuel D. Talbot of St. Joseph, Buchanan County testified under oath that Horace Nolen had owned Joshua 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 have used 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
