St. John Honeywood (1763 - 1798)

St. John Honeywood (February 1, 1763 - September 1, 1798) was an American poet, artist, intellectual, educator, politician, lawyer, and newspaper editor. In 1782 he graduated from Yale, where he had become a protegé of the President, Ezra Stiles. He taught school for two years in Schenectady NY, then went on to study law in Albany and to set up practice in Salem, NY. He edited two Salem papers, the short-lived Washington Patriot and the more successful Northern Sentinel. He rose to be a Master in Chancery and Clerk of the County, and was chosen as one of the Electors who voted for John Adams for President when Washington refused a further term.