reedman Cupid Hamilton of Pocotoligo, Beaufort County, SC filed a Southern Claims Commission Claim on August 26, 1871, for supplies taken by the Union Troops during the Civil War. His claim reveals many details of his life before, and after Emancipation. Witnesses to the claim were Freedmen Luke Green, Scipio Blue, Moses M. Washington and Aleck Wilson, all former slaves of William Heyward.