John Streeter

From the Crowninshield Family Association, SFI Plate No. 21 c.

John, son of James and Jemima (Staples) Streeter, removed first to Winchester and thence to Hinsdale, N.H., buying land there 10 April 1787, still there in 1796

John and Johannah (known as Jane) Smith married in 1771 in Rhode Island. They went first to Winchester, New Hampshire and then on to Hinsdale. Deeds show land was purchased in Hinsdale on April 10, 1787. Jane died first and John married a second time, to Rebecca Farr; there were no children from the second marriage. John, Jane, and Rebecca are all buried in the North Hinsdale Cemetery, next to the Baptist Church.

John is considered one of the early pioneers of Hinsdale and is described this way in the Gazetteer of Cheshire County:

John Streeter was born in Attleboro, R I., August 16, 1751 (o. s.). He married Jane Smith, of Smithfield, R. I., and moved to Hinsdale at an early date, locating in the southern part of the town, where he lived several years, then located in the northern part, where his grandson, Quinton D., now resides. He lived there the remainder of his long life, dying in January, 1845, at the age of ninety-four years. He was twice married, his first wife, however, being the mother of his six children, who were as follows: Lyman, who died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, aged 100 years; Isaiah, who died in Hinsdale, aged about forty-five years, and two of whose children are now living in the town-Levi, a farther, and Sibyl, widow of Charles Hubbard; Elijah, who died on the homestead, and who has three children now living- Franklin, Angeline (Mrs. Joseph Randall), and Quinton D.; Charles, who died near the homestead on a farm given him by his father, aged seventy-seven years; Caleb, who also died near the homestead on a farm given him by his father, aged eighty-one years, and who has three children now living in the town-Eliza (widow of Joel Derby), on the homestead, Rev. Henderson B., a retired Baptist clergyman, and Sylvia (Mrs. Thomas F. Dix); and Lydia, the only daughter, who married Ebenezer Stone and died at the age of sixty-five years. Two of the latter's children are living Hon. Ashley Stone, of this town, and John Riley Stone, of Brattleboro, Vt.

Sources

• Child, Hamilton. Gazetteer of Cheshire County, N.H., 1736-1885. Syracuse, NY. 1885.
• Crowninshield Family Association, SFI Plate No. 21 c.