SINGLETON FAMILY PAPERS, #668, 1759-1905
Correspondence, financial, legal, and other papers of the Singleton family, planters near
Sumter, South Carolina. Correspondence covers various topics including purchase and sale of
slaves and runaway slaves (1791, 1801-1820, 1821-1822). Financial
papers contain accounts, bills, receipts and tax returns that document slavery including the
purchase, hire, and medical treatment of slaves (1787-1852). Also included in the collection
are bills of William Ellison, a free black craftsman (1820-1831); a bill and receipt for the
capture and holding of a runaway slave (1827); an advertisement for
the sale of slaves in Sumter (1838); a slave list (1849); a slave pass (1820); an agreement
to purchase a factory and slaves who worked it (1843); a petition
to send slaves to work on roads (1845); and a document on slaves
charged with murder of an overseer (1843). Microfilm available.