Stephen Grellet
Stephen Grellet (28 October 1772 – 16 November 1855) was a prominent French-American
Life
Grellet was born Étienne de Grellet du Mabillier
While in New York he met
Grellet became involved in extensive missionary work in prisons and hospitals across North America and most of the countries of Europe, and was granted meetings with many rulers and dignitaries, including Pope Pius VII, Tsar Alexander I, and the Kings of Spain and Prussia. He often travelled with William Allen, and visited many schools, hospitals and prisons as well as speaking out against slavery.[4] He also visited Haiti in 1816[5] and Russia in 1819.[6]
In 1804 Grellet married Rebecca Collins, the daughter of the publisher Isaac Collins.[7] The family home, the Isaac Collins House, in Burlington, New Jersey, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Grellet died in Burlington on 16 November 1855 and his body was buried there, behind the
Family
Grellet was married to Rebecca and they had one daughter, Rachel.[4]
Bibliography
- Benjamin Seebohm: Memoirs of the life and gospel labours of Stephen Grellet, Longstreth, Philadelphia, 1862 (3rd ed.), 426+438 p.
- Frances Anne Budge : A missionary life : Stephen Grellet, Nisbet, London, 1888, 127 p.
- William Guest : Stephen Grellet, Headley, London, 1903, 226 p.
- William Wistar Comfort, 'Stephen Grellet, 1773-1855', MacMillan, New York, 1942, 202p.
- Claus Bernet (2007). "Grellet, Stephen". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 28. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 687–690. ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7.
References
- ^ Encyclopedia.com website, Grellet, Stephen
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4411-1532-4.
- ^ Gale website, ‘An Inoffensive People’: Letters of Stephen Grellet on Haiti, 1816
- ^ a b c Quakers in the World website, Stephen Grellet
- ^ Webster University, An 1816 Visit by the Quaker Missionary Stephen Grellet
- ^ Doukhobor website, Quaker Visit to the Dukhobortsy, 1819
- ^ Biblical Cyclopedia website, Grellet, Stephen
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