Background
Grellet, Stephen was born on November 2, 1773 in Limoges, France. Son of Gabriel Marc Antoine and Susanne (de Senamaud) de Grellet.
Stephen Grellet
November 2, 1773 (age 244)
During the French Revolution he was sentenced to be executed, but escaped and eventually fled Europe to the United States in 1795. He became involved in extensive missionary work across North America and most of the countries of Europe, in prisons and hospitals, and was respectfully granted meetings with many rulers and dignitaries, including Pope Pius VII, Czar Alexander I, and the Kings of Spain and Prussia. He encouraged many reforms in educational policies and in hospital and prison conditions. In 1804 Grellet married Rebecca Collins, the daughter of the publisher Isaac Collins. The family home, the Isaac Collins House, in Burlington, New Jersey, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is reputed that Grellet was the last living person who could have identified the "Lost Dauphin", the heir apparent of France. Grellet died in Burlington on 16 November 1855 and his body was buried there, behind the Quaker Meeting House at 340 High Street.
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Education
Raised as a Roman Catholic he was educated at the Military College of Lyons, now the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon, and at the age of 17 he entered the personal guard of the king.
Career
During the French Revolution he was sentenced to be executed, but escaped and eventually fled Europe to the United States in 1795. He became involved in extensive missionary work across North America and most of the countries of Europe, in prisons and hospitals, and was respectfully granted meetings with many rulers and dignitaries, including Pope Pius VII, Czar Alexander I, and the Kings of Spain and Prussia. He encouraged many reforms in educational policies and in hospital and prison conditions.
In 1804 Grellet married Rebecca Collins, the daughter of the publisher Isaac Collins. The family home, the Isaac Collins House, in Burlington, New Jersey, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is reputed that Grellet was the last living person who could have identified the "Lost Dauphin", the heir apparent of France.
Grellet died in Burlington on 16 November 1855 and his body was buried there, behind the Quaker Meeting House at 340 High Street.
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Membership
Member King’s Horse Guards, 1792.
Connections
Married Rebecca Collins, July 11, 1804, 1 child.
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Religion
Roman Catholic