Ruth Channing Tenney, 1782–1842

Place of birth

Newport, Rhode Island

Place of death

Northampton, Massachusetts

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Biography

Ruth Channing was born about 1782 in Newport, Rhode Island, and married the Rev. Caleb Jewett Tenney on 19 May 1808, a Congregational minister who had posts in Newport, Wethersfield, Connecticut and Northampton, Massachusetts. Ruth Channing Tenney died in Northampton on 5 September 1842.