Adams Streeter

Adams Streeter (December 31, 1735 – September 14, 1786)[1] was the first minister of the Universalist congregations in Oxford and Milford, Massachusetts.[2]

Born in Framingham, Massachusetts, the son of Stephen and Catherine (Adams) Streeter,[3], with whom he removed at an early age to Douglass, he was the first pastor of the First Universalist Church in Boston, where later his relation served, Russell Streeter, editor of the Christian Intelligencer from 1822, and minister of the First Universalist Society in Portland, Maine. Adams' brother Zebulon was also an early Universalist pastor.[4] Another relation was Sebastian Streeter, also a Universalist minister.

References

  1. Milford B. Streeter, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Stephen and Ursula Streeter of Gloucester, Mass., 1642 1896, pp 31f.
  2. The A to Z of Unitarian Universalism Page 353 Mark W. Harris – 2009 "Adams Streeter proposed that the Universalists gather in association so that a unified and legal church body might be recognized on constitutional grounds. They met on September 14, 1785, and formed the Oxford Association."
  3. Milford B. Streeter 1896, pp 31f.
  4. Milford B. Streeter, 1896 pp 32-34.


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