Hector Saint-John De Crevecoeur It, a French agriculturist and traveller, born at Caen in 1731, died at Sarcelles, near Paris, in 1813. He spent six years in England studying agricultural and politico-economical science, and in 1754 went to America, and after travelling some time settled in New York as a farmer. During the revolution he was captured and sent to England as a prisoner, and after being exchanged went to Normandy. Subsequently he returned to the United States as French consul general for the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. He found his property destroyed by lire, and his wife dead; but his children had been well cared for by Mr. Fellowes of Boston, who had heard of their father's generous assistance to some American sailors cast away on the coast of Normandy. The seal of Hartford was engraved under his supervision about 1785, and used in conferring the freedom of that city upon himself and his two sons, and upon Lafayette and his son. He returned to France in the latter part of his life. He was a correspondent of the institute from its foundation.

Besides a pamphlet in 1782 on his introduction of the potato into lower Normandy, and other anonymous writings, he published Lettres d'un cultivaieur americain (2 vols., Paris, 1784), and Voyage dans la haute Pensylvanie et dans l'Etat de New York (2 vols., 1801).