Adams Streeter (December 31, 1735 – September 14, 1786)[1] was an American clergyman 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 relations Sebastian Streeter (1783-1867) and his brother Russell (1791-1880) served. Editor of the Christian Intelligencer from 1822, Russell became minister of the First Universalist Society in Portland, Maine. Adams' brother Zebulon was also an early Universalist pastor.[4]
References
- ^ Milford B. Streeter, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Stephen and Ursula Streeter of Gloucester, Mass., 1642 1896, pp 31f.
- ^ 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."
- ^ Milford B. Streeter 1896, pp 31f.
- ^ Milford B. Streeter, 1896 pp 32-34.