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Gilbert Tennent, by Jacob Eichholtz, after Gustavus Hesselius, circa 1760.
Credit: Courtesy of the Princeton University Art Museum, Presented by Miss Smith, photo by Bruce White.
A son of William Tennent, the founder of the Log College, Irish-born Gilbert Tennent played an influential role in the spread of Presbyterianism during the Great Awakening in the British colonies prior to his death in 1764.