Call Number:

C0482

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 2 boxes
• 0.65 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Tennent Family Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1770-1795 (bulk) and 1755-1936 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Tennent, William, 1740-1777

Form:

Correspondence -- 18th century, Daguerreotypes., Family papers -- 18th century., Sermons -- 18th century., and Slave records -- South Carolina.

Abstract:

Consists of miscellaneous eighteenth-century papers of several members of the Tennent family of New Jersey and South Carolina.

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.