Papers of the Singleton and Deveaux families, 1784-1931.

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Papers of the Singleton and Deveaux families, 1784-1931.

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Chiefly family correspondence re school affairs, family news, and social events in Charleston, S.C., and Richmond, Va.; including letter, 8 July 1828, [R.]J. Singleton, to Marion W. Singleton, Philadelphia, Pa., re family affairs, school life, studying, and summer vacation plans; letter, 16 May 1830, R.J. Singleton to Marion and Angelica Singleton, Philadelphia, Pa., re irregularity of Marion and Angelica's correspondences and elopement of Salley Cantey, classmate of Marion and Angelica's classmate. Letter, 24 Nov. [c.1830], S.W. Taylor, to Marion W. Singleton, Philadelphia, Pa., re family news; letter, 5 Apr. 1835, S[arah] C[oles] Stevenson, re wedding of Marion W. Singleton; letter, 15 Mar. 1842, S.C. Stevenson, re family affairs, hunting expedition, visiting at home of Marion Singleton Deveaux in Charleston, S.C., and attending dinner with Pres. Martin Van Buren and author James Kirk Paulding. Letter, 17 Aug. 1859, Wilmington, N.C., [Thomas] B. Moore, to M.S. Deveaux, Raleigh, N.C., re illness of M.S. Deveaux; 7 letters, 15 Nov. 1843-15 Nov. 1845, to M.S. Deveaux, Charleston, S.C., re family news, hiring servants, recent marriages, and illnesses; letter, 22 April 1861, to Marion Singleton Deveaux, re enlistment of troops, and commenting on the success of the "Palmetto boys"; and deed, 3 Sept. 1802, signed by J[ohn] G[abriel] Guignard, Surveyor General, for 300 acres of land.

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