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Stephen Grellet (28 October 1772 – 16 November 1855) was a prominent French-American Quaker missionary.
While in New York he met Deborah Darby, an English Quaker minister who had been in the U.S. since August 1793. Darby made an impression on Grellet and under her and William Savery's influence he decided to join the Quakers (Society of Friends). Darby and Grellet became friends; when Darby returned to Britain with her colleague Rebecca Young, she was accompanied by four American Quakers (including William Savery), and Grellet was there to wave them off.
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. He also visited Haiti in 1816 Webster University, An 1816 Visit by the Quaker Missionary Stephen Grellet and Russia in 1819. Doukhobor website, Quaker Visit to the Dukhobortsy, 1819
In 1804 Grellet married Rebecca Collins, the daughter of the publisher Isaac Collins. Biblical Cyclopedia website, Grellet, Stephen 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 Quaker Meeting House at 340 High Street.
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