Thomas Tenney (1755 - 1837)

Born 25 Jul 1755 in Rowley, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Jewett) Tenney — married 30 Apr 1784 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States of America

Descendants

Died 4 Sep 1837 at age 82 in Saint Albans, Somerset, Maine, United States of America [uncertain]

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Biography

Thomas was born to Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Boynton) Tenney on 25 July 1755 in Rowley.^[1][2]

Thomas Tenney married Elizabeth Jewett in Rowley on 30 April 1784.^[3]

Thomas removed to Topsfield about 1794, and from there to St. Albans, Maine, about 1804.^[2]

Thomas Tenney lived until 4 Sep 1837, when he died in Saint Albans, Maine.^[4]

Thomas and Elizabeth Tenney had nine children.^[2] Mary, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Jane, and Samuel Gilman were born in Rowley between 1785 & 1793.^[1] William, Thomas Boynton, Jane Searl, and Jeremiah Jewett Tenney were born in Topsfield.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Essex, Vital Records of Rowley Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, Births, p. 216
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} The Tenney family, or the descendants of Thomas Tenney, of Rowley, Massachusetts, 1638-1890, by M. J. Tenney, published 1904, pages 57-58
3. ↑ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, FamilySearch (2 March 2020), Thomas Tenney and Elizabeth Jewett, 30 Apr 1784; citing Marriage, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009689.
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #82736144, Lyford Cemetery, Saint Albans, Somerset, Maine, USA
5. ↑ Essex, Vital Records of Topsfield Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, p. 99

• Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pgs. 163-4.