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    <title>Singleton family papers, 1758-1860 (bulk 1829-1855)</title>
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  <abstract>Family and general correspondence, poetry, genealogical data, legal records, receipts, clippings, and other papers of members of the Singleton and allied Van Buren and Deveaux (DeVoe) families.  Most prominently represented are Angelica Singleton Van Buren and her sister Marion Singleton Deveaux Converse.  Subjects include family and plantation life in South Carolina, life in Washington, D.C., and Lindenwald, Martin Van Buren's estate in Kinderhook, N.Y.  Correspondents include Betty Coles, Robert Marion Deveaux, Stephen G. Deveaux, George McDuffie, William C. Preston, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Singleton, and Abraham Van Buren.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Plantation owners of South Carolina.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012032">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012032</note>
  <note>Partial card index available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Coles, Betty</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Deveaux, Robert Marion</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Deveaux, Stephen G</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McDuffie, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1790-1851</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Preston, William C. (William Campbell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1794-1860</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Singleton, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1852</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Mrs</namePart>
      <namePart>Singleton, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1849</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Van Buren, Abraham</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>DeVoe family</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Singleton family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Van Buren family</namePart>
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  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Plantations</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>Kinderhook</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Plantations</topic>
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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      <title>Marion Singleton Deveaux Converse papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Converse, Marion Singleton Deveaux,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-</namePart>
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      <title>Angelica Singleton Van Buren papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Van Buren, Angelica Singleton,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1877</namePart>
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