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Tennent, William, 1740-1777. William Tennent papers, 1758-1889.

Title: William Tennent papers, 1758-1889.

Handwritten transcripts (ca. 1828) of the correspondence (1758-1776) of William Tennent (1740-1777) copied and annotated by Charles Tennent with several later annotations (1889) by William Tennent. Also includes poems (1759-1838), essays, memoirs, speeches, and a hymn (1831). Correspondence consists primarily of love letters from William Tennent to Susannah Vergereau. Other correspondence is from Elias Boudinot [secretary to President George Washington] to his cousin Susannah Vergereau Tennent and to William Tennent concerning family matters, religion, and politics. Additional papers include poems, essays, memoirs, speeches, and other writings of William Tennent, some of which express his dissatisfaction with the British. A missionary hymn (1831) may have been added by Charles Tennent. A poem "To a flower garden" (1838), dedicated to Charles Tennent, was added by his wife Ann Martha Smith Tennent after his death.

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Hart, Oliver, 1723-1795. Oliver Hart papers, 1754-1795.

Title: Oliver Hart papers, 1754-1795.

Chiefly family correspondence of Oliver Hart re politics, family affairs, war, religion, and sermons; including 17 letters, 1755-1795, Charleston, S.C., and Hopewell, N.J, between Oliver Hart and his father, John Hart, and his brother, Joseph Hart re Oliver Hart's work as a Baptist minister, politics, fortification of Charleston, S.C., war between England and France, farm produce, fire of 1778, Revolutionary War, S.C. Congress, friends, and relocating to Hopewell, N.J. Dairy, 1741-1789, of Oliver Hart, re personal notes and thoughts, sermons, family life, religious works; 2 volumes, 1741-1780, original and mimeographed copy, re notes of William Screven and family with introduction by Louis Latimer Owens; volume, 1773-1794, list of sermons and funerals preached including that of Congregational pastor William Tennent, 1777; also including family genealogy, 1790, by Oliver Hart; correspondence, 1792-1831, re religion, family news, and condolences on the death of Oliver Hart. Twelve letters, 1781-1813, Burlington, N.J., from Hart's wife, Anne [Maria Grimball] Hart, to sons, Oliver Hart, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa, and William Rogers Hart, Wadmalaw, S.C.; 3 family letters, 20 Feb. 1871, 31 Mar. 1871, and 14 May 1871, re illness, and creation of her own school; and volume, 1867, by William Watts Hart Davis, typed excerpts re the Oliver Hart family from "History of the Hart Family"; and undated photographs of Oliver Hart and family, Hopewell Church and Cemetery, Hopewell, N.J.

ArchivalResource: 230 items and 6 v.

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Tennent, William, 1740-1777. Tennent family papers, 1767-1936 (bulk 1770-1795).

Title: Tennent family papers, 1767-1936 (bulk 1770-1795).

Consists of manuscripts of various members of the Tennent family of New Jersey and South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear ft. (1 half-size archival box, 1 small case)

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Mullaney, Inger,. Inger Mullaney oral history, 2009 Mar. 21.

Title: Inger Mullaney oral history, 2009 Mar. 21.

Interview conducted by William Tennent.

ArchivalResource: 1 DVD-videodisc.

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Hart, Oliver, 1723-1795. Papers, 1741-1805.

Title: Papers, 1741-1805.

Photocopies of handwritten papers of Rev. Oliver Hart include correspondence, diaries, journals, list of sermons, and sermon notes from colonial- and Revolutionary-era Charleston, S.C.; bulk of correspondence is from Oliver Hart to his brother, Colonel Joseph Hart of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, relaying news from South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. After leaving Charleston in 1780, Hart receives a few letters from his wife describing conditions and events in the South Carolina low country. Typescripts of some documents are included in the collection.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

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Tennent, William, 1740-1777. William Tennent journal, 1775 Aug. 2-Sept. 15.

Title: William Tennent journal, 1775 Aug. 2-Sept. 15.

Journal, 2 Aug.-15 Sept. 1775, documenting Tennent's trek though the back-country of the South Carolina Colony, at times in the company of William Henry Drayton and Rev. Oliver Hart, in an effort to persuade American Loyalists to join the Patriot cause. As an ordained Presbyterian minster, Tennent successfully won support for the Revolution from a population composed chiefly of fellow practioners of dissenter denominations (such as Baptist, Quaker, Lutheran, etc.). Tennent's entries discuss meeting Catawba Indians, difficulties of frontier travel, visiting militia camps around S.C., concerns over committing treason, and securing signatures of support for the rebellion against Great Britain. This volume was transcribed by Tennent's son, John Charles Tennent, who titled the work, "A Fragment of a journal kept by Rev'd William Tennent who was sent in conjunction with Mr. Drayton by the Committee of Safety to the Upper Country of So. Carolina to induce the Tories there to sign an Association not to bear arms against, but for their Country." From the first day's travel in August 1775, when Tennent recorded meeting "about 40 Catawba Indians at the Quarter House on their way to town," to his return to Charleston, S.C. in Sept. 1775, "through the greatest quantity of water I remember to have seen," he relates the experience of frontier travel and the accomplishments of this trip which secured significant support for Revolution in South Carolina. On leaving Charleston, Tennent discussed various settlements of back-country S.C. that included Amelia Township, Saxe Gotha, Long Canes, and elsewhere on a journey that is thought to have passed through areas of present-day Calhoun Co., passing along south bank of the Congaree River, turning north to Chester Co., followed by the Counties of Union, York, Cherokee, Spartanburg, Greenville, Laurens, and Abbeville, then proceeding along the south bank of the Savannah River in Georgia, passing through Augusta, and crossing back into S.C. at present site of Hampton County, before heading due east to return to Charleston. Attempting to counter Royalist propaganda, Tennent "preached in the camp... finding some Disaffected among the Soldiers Mr. Drayton harrangued them... until all seemed well satisfied & we returned to Mr. Chesnutt's"; "met a Company of militia... they signed the Association"; "Reached Captn. Woodard's... his Company signed"; "Rocky Creek Meeting House... The heat almost melted me, but... the People... sign[ed] the Association fully convinced of the Necessity"; "Spent the... day & Evening rallying & desultory talk with... the most staunch of Flechal's Friends. The pamphlet sent up by the Governor has done much Damage here... taught the people that no man from Charleston can speak the Truth." Suggestion of the sparse settlement of the area appears in entry: "Rode 13 miles... to a Meeting House... on Thicketty [Creek] where found... [Mr. Alexander] preaching... When he had done I mounted the Pulpit & spoke near two hours.... Refreshed myself & drank out of a Cow bell... they signed the Association." Evidence of the potential for violence faced by this cleric appears in entry: "Went... to the General Muster at Mr. Ford's on Enoree... met only about 270 men... Leaders armed with Pistols. Mr. Drayton... was answered... by Kirkland... & a terrible Riot seemed on the point of happening"; "Met with... Robt Cunningham's Company... the Centre of the Opposition in the Regiment... it would seem that the force of violence is broke here"; "concluded to go [to] Little River Meeting house where Mr. [Oliver] Hart had appointed a sermon... & did some good." A description of an area later known as Rocky River in western AbbevilleDistrict in a later entry: "Went to a Meeting... on the Long Cane Creek"; "went to Bull Town Meeting House... 15 miles from the Indian Line... & many of those who had signed Flechall's Association now subscribed to ours" [reference to Colonel Thomas Fletchall, (1725-1789) and the "Counter Association" - a document written by Joseph Robinson (1748-1807) at the Fletchall's request, setting forth the Loyalists' opposition to the "Continental Association" legislation that had recently been adopted by the Whig Provincial Congress in Charleston, S.C.] Subsequent entries describe passage through an area that was later an area of many grist mills and loss of his horse: "resolved... to lodge this Night at Patrick Calhoun's.... This Country affords the greatest number of fine Falls for Mills... I have ever seen"; "the horse ran away... we were thrown out & the Chair was torn in pieces"; "Went... to Kings Highway... to take a nap.... I hope his Majesty will not be persuaded to get an Act of Parliament passed to constitute this Treason"; "rode to my plantation... [all difficulties] compensated by the Joy of my dear family and friends on my safe arrival."

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Tennent, William, 1740-1777. William Tennent (1740-1777) papers, 1758-1777.

Title: William Tennent (1740-1777) papers, 1758-1777.

Album, 1758-1777, transcribed by John Charles Tennent in 1828 from the papers of his father, William Tennent III (1740-1777), including several letters dating to his life in the Colonies of New Jersey and Connecticut and his later work on behalf of the Patriot cause during the American Revolution in South Carolina, including efforts of Tennent, a cleric of the Presbyterian Church and a dissenter, to secure the disestablishment of the Anglican Church. Seven love letters, 1758-1763, written to "Zephyra" [addressing his future wife, Susan Vergereau, in New York] in which Tennent wrote under the name "Alexis," illustrate the reserved style of courtship for the period; this union may not have occurred without the assistance of statesman and philanthropist Elias Boudinot (1740-1821), a cousin of Susan Vergerau, a friend of the Tennent family, and later a President of the First Continental Congress; 8 letters, 1758-1761, from Boudinot discuss religious thought, offer encouragement, and reveal his friendship and admiration for William. Two poems date to the Seven Years War: "The Reduction of the Famous Isle of Louisbourgh" (1 Aug. 1759) re British conquest of the French stronghold at Louisbourg (Nova Scotia, Canada) during the French and Indian War, and "The Birth of Measures" (5 Sept. 1759). Essay [1774], "To the Ladies of South Carolina," re evils of drinking tea, illustrates Tennent's political involvement in the tea controversy; and undated essay, regarding "The rumor that St. Philips Church Steeple... was struck with lightening." Undated letter [ca.1774?], "To The Right Honorable The Countess of Huntington," [Selina Hastings Huntingdon] reports his friendship with the famed Methodist minister George Whitfield, who had founded Bethesda Orphanage, a home and school in Savannah, Ga., "Without regard to Denomination we have been the steady friends of Mr. Whitfield," and discusses her Ladyship's plans in connection with "Appropriation of the Orphan House Estate" and education for the ministry, discussing Rev. William Piercy, a minister from St. Paul's, Charleston, appointed by Huntingdon in 1773 to operate the Orphanage and train missionaries. Tennent diplomatically expresses his concern that many benefactors had donated money and property to provide care for orphans but not towards a college to train missionaries (pp. 133-142). Three letters [June-Sept. 1774], in which Tennent wrote under the name of "A Carolinian," and addressed to "Mr. Printer" and "To Inhabitants of South Carolina," re in which he takes issue with the actions of British Parliament and local colonial administrators. Several items document the end of the established, Anglican Church in the colony: "Interesting Events as they took place in... South Carolina 1776," includes the order "that all prayers for the King of Great Britain & his Royal Family be omitted in the Liturgy... the first Ecclesiastical Order in the State," and which includes an account of events in Charleston on 5 Aug. 1776 when "The Independence of the United States... was... proclaimed." Written as a member of the General Assembly meeting in Charleston, Tennent provides a personal report on the actions of the legislature in essay, "Historic Remarks on the Session of Assembly began Tuesday September 17th 1776"; Tennent's speech to the General Assembly, 11 Jan. 1777, brought about the disestablishment of the Anglican Church in South Carolina; this document also includes the only known copy of the Dissenters' petition for the disestablishment which was also prepared by Tennent. Journal, 1775, copied by J.C. Tennent, "A Fragment of a journal kept by Rev. William Tennent who was sent in conjunction with Mr. Drayton by the Committee of Safety to the Upper Country of So. Carolina to induce the Tories there to sign an Association not to bear arms against, but for their Country"; entries, 2 Aug.-15 Sept. 1775, discuss meeting Catawba Indians, frontier travel, visiting militia camps around S.C., worrying about committing treason, and securing signatures on the Association. The volume also includes an inscription, 1838, memorializing John Charles Tennent (d. 1838), written by his widow, Ann Martha Smith Tennent.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

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Hart, Oliver, 1723-1795. Oliver Hart papers, 1741-1961 (bulk, 1741-1795) and undated.

Title: Oliver Hart papers, 1741-1961 (bulk, 1741-1795) and undated.

Papers, 1741 to 1795, of Rev. Oliver Hart include correspondence, diaries, and sermon notes from colonial- and Revolutionary-era Charleston, S.C.; bulk of correspondence is from Oliver Hart to his brother, Colonel Joseph Hart of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, relaying news from South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. After leaving Charleston in 1780, Hart receives a few letters from his wife describing conditions and events in the South Carolina lowcountry. Ten volumes of diaries and journals detail diverse activities in Hart's life; topics discussed include a storm in Charleston harbor in 1761, travels in Virginia and North Carolina, and his tour of the South Carolina upcountry during the initial months of the American Revolution; while in the backcountry, Hart regularly met with Congregational minister William Tennent III (1740-1777), and later officiated at his funeral; throughout his journals, Hart always notes the weather and from what verse he preached a particular sermon; collection includes a listing of sermons notes, verses quoted, and dates delivered.

ArchivalResource: 57 items.

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