Samuel Tenney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Samuel Tenney

American politician

Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1748

Place of Birth: Byfield, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 06-Feb-1816

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, surgeon

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Samuel Tenney

  • Samuel Tenney (November 27, 1748 – February 6, 1816) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire.
  • Born in Byfield, Massachusetts, he attended Governor Dummer Academy and graduated from Harvard College in 1772.
  • He taught school at Andover and studied medicine, beginning practice in Exeter, New Hampshire.
  • He was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War.
  • He tended the wounded patriots following the Battle of Bunker Hill then for the next year served as Surgeon's Mate alongside Massachusetts troops.
  • For the balance of the war he was a surgeon attached primarily to the 1st Rhode Island Regiment.
  • He was present at the surrenders of Burgoyne and Cornwallis; encamped at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during that fierce Winter 1777/78; was designated Acting Surgeon General of the Army upon general orders of General George Washington; and then returned to Exeter at the close of the war where he took up politics and other scholarly pursuits.
  • He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1788 and a judge of probate for Rockingham County from 1793 to 1800.
  • He was secretary of the New Hampshire Medical Society and commissioned Paul Revere to produce the first engraving of that organization's seal.
  • Used the pseudonym "Alfredus" to publish commentary as part of public debate over the design and ratification of the U.S.
  • Constitution.
  • He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1791, and was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815.Circa 1800 he commissioned a home which was built in the center of Exeter on Front Street next to the First Church, now part of the Front Street Historic District.
  • It would be his primary residence in New Hampshire.
  • In 1893, long after Samuel's death, the home was relocated to 65 High Street to make way for construction of a new County Courthouse.
  • On November 25, 1980 the Samuel Tenney House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.Tenney was elected as a Federalist to the 6th U.S.
  • Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Gordon; he was reelected to the 7th, 8th, and 9th Congresses and served from December 8, 1800, to March 3, 1807.
  • While in the House, he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Eighth and Ninth Congresses).
  • Upon retiring from Congress, he continued to pursue literary, historical, and scientific studies and died in Exeter in 1816; interment was at the Winter Street Burial Ground.In 1788, Tenney married Tabitha Gilman (1762–1837).
  • Tabitha, born in Exeter, was descended from one of New England's mainline families.
  • Tabitha's father Samuel Gilman died in 1778 and it is believed she stayed at home helping to raise her six younger siblings.
  • Tabitha Gilman Tenney is a notable author in early American literature.
  • In 1801, while living with Samuel in Washington D.C., Tabitha wrote and published her most recognized work, Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventure of Dorcasina Sheldon.
  • Samuel and Tabitha Tenney had no children.
  • Upon her 1837 death in Exeter, she too was buried at the Winter Street Burial Ground.

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