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Tennent Family Papers
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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The Tennent family was a prominent family of New Jersey and South Carolina.
The collection consists of miscellaneous papers of several members of the Tennent family of New Jersey and South Carolina. Included are sermons of William Tennent, III (Princeton Class of 1758), two letters (1793) by his wife, Susanne, to their son, William Peter Tennent (1770-1816), a document (1795) concerning the sale of a slave, and clippings concerning William Tennent, Jr.(1705-1777), father of William Tennent, III, and pastor of the Old Scots Church (now known as the Old Tennent Church) in Freehold, N.J. Also included are four daguerreotype portraits of members of the Tennent family.
The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.
Gift of Tennent L. Griffin (AM 21587 and later additions).
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Folder inventory added by Feng Zhu '2014 in 2012.
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- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Inventory
1 folder
1 folder
Wife of Wm. Tennant III
Physical Description1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
1 folder
Photostats from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Physical Description2 folders
Includes 3 daguerreotypes, 1 ambrotype, and 1 tintype
Physical Description1 box