Adams Streeter (December 31, 1735 – September 14, 1786)Milford B. Streeter, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Stephen and Ursula Streeter of Gloucester, Mass., 1642 1896, pp 31f. was an American clergyman and the first minister of the Universalist congregations in Oxford and Milford, Massachusetts.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."
Born in Framingham, Massachusetts, the son of Stephen and Catherine (Adams) Streeter,Milford B. Streeter 1896, pp 31f. 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.Milford B. Streeter, 1896 pp 32-34.
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