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Tesson family

 Family

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Tesson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A1610
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers of the related families of Michel Desravines Tesson and Thomas Forsyth. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, accounts, receipts, and bills relating to Thomas Forsyth's work as an Indian agent in Illinois in the early nineteenth century. The collection also contains papers relating to the genealogy of the Tesson, Forsyth, and related families; correspondence (mostly in French) of the Michel Desravines Tesson family and...
Dates: 1797-1958, no date; Majority of material found within 1797-1866

Tesson Family Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1006
Scope and Contents

The Tesson Family Photograph Collection contains one daguerreotype showing Coralie Tesson Polkowski in June 1863, and two photographs in a single frame showing George Hamilton Hall and his wife Noemie Tesson Hall about 1875.

Dates: 1863-ca. 1875

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Forsyth family -- Genealogy 1
Fox Indians 1
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 1
Indian agents -- Illinois 1
Indians of North America 1