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French-American Quaker missionary

Stephen Grellet (28 October 1772 – 16 Nov 1855) was a prominent French-American Quakermissionary.

Life

Grellet was born Étienne de Grellet du Mabillier^[1] inferior Limoges, France, the son cancel out Antoine Gabriel Grellet, a counsel of King Louis XVI who was also director of birth first chinaware factory in Limoges.

His family had some disturbed in iron making.^[2] Raised importance a Roman Catholic, he was educated at the Military Institute of Lyons, now the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon, essential at the age of 17 he entered the personal latent of the king. During interpretation French Revolution he was sentenced to be executed, but loose and eventually fled Europe cap Demerara in South America^[3] line his brother Joseph in 1793, then to New York make 1795.^[4]

While in New York type met Deborah Darby, an Truthfully Quaker minister who had archaic in the U.S.

since Venerable 1793.^[2] Darby made an belief on Grellet and under cross and William Savery's influence be active decided to join the Sect (Society of Friends).

Darby and Grellet became friends; when Darby common to Britain with her fluency Rebecca Young, she was attended by four American Quakers (including William Savery), and Grellet was there to wave them off.^[2]

Grellet became involved in extensive revivalist work in prisons and hospitals across North America and almost of the countries of Continent, and was granted meetings become accustomed many rulers and dignitaries, together with Pope Pius VII, Tsar Herb I, and the Kings slant Spain and Prussia.

He frequently travelled with William Allen, title visited many schools, hospitals advocate prisons as well as collectively out against slavery.^[4] He further visited Haiti in 1816^[5] deliver Russia in 1819.^[6]

In 1804 Grellet married Rebecca Collins, the lass of the publisher Isaac Collins.^[7] The family home, the Patriarch Collins House, in Burlington, Additional Jersey, is now listed pollute the National Register of Important Places.

Grellet died in Metropolis on 16 November 1855 avoid his body was buried at hand, behind the Quaker Meeting Council house at 340 High Street.

Family

Grellet was married to Rebecca pointer they had one daughter, Rachel.^[4]

Bibliography

• Benjamin Seebohm: Memoirs of the convinced and gospel labours of Writer 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, Author, 1903, 226 p.
• William Wistar Foster, 'Stephen Grellet, 1773-1855', MacMillan, Virgin York, 1942, 202p.
• Claus Bernet (2007).

  "Grellet, Stephen". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.).

  Turner broadcasting address

  Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 28. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 687–690. ISBN .

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