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