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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Mrs. W. R. Buffington Collection #1475, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. W. R. Buffington in 1948.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Claiborne family.
• Duffel family.
• Duffel, Edward, 1786-1859.
• Estates (Law)--Connecticut.
• Families--Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• Harris family.
• Johnson Island Prison.
• Journal de la Societe des Amis de la Liberte et de L'Egalite.
• Leonard, John West, d. 1818.
• Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• Packwood family.
• Packwood, William.
• Seghers family.
• Steele family.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• United States--History--War of 1812.
• United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--War of 1812.
• Washington (D.C.)--History--Capture by the British, 1814.

• MAGDALENE HUTCHINS CLAIBORNE PAPERS (#1182).

Letters and papers are comprised of three parts: 1) papers relating to the Packwood and Harris families, which include genealogical records, a legal document relating to the division of William Packwood's estate in Connecticut, and two letters, 1864, from the Harris brothers, prisoners at Johnson's Island, to their wives; 2) papers relating to the Duffel, Seghers, and Steel families, including genealogical records, three issues, 1792-1793, of the Belgian "Journal de la Societe; des Amis de la Liberte et de L'Egalite," papers relating to the Duffel estate, and five Duffel family letters, 1814-1818, which speak of the burning of Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, family news, army recruitment, speculations on new commercial ventures made possible by the war's conclusion, and detailed accounts, 1818, of the deaths of Edward Duffel's wife and John West Leonard; and 3) papers, 1832-1843, relating to the Claiborne family of Mississippi and Louisiana, including family gossip, discussions relating to marriage plans, and children's letters to their grandmother.