Stephen Grellet, a Quaker missionary, born in France in 1773, died in Burlington, N. J., Nov. 16, 1855. He was originally a Catholic, and was educated at the military college of Lyons. At the age of 17 he entered the body guard of Louis XVI., after whose execution he escaped to Demerara. In 1795 he went to New York, where, chancing to attend a Quaker meeting, he determined to join that society. In the following winter he removed to Philadelphia, and during the prevalence of the yellow fever there in 1798 he ministered to the sick, the dying, and the afflicted. In 1799 he removed to New York and engaged in mercantile business. Becoming impressed that it was his duty to go forth as a missionary, he made a tour into the southern states in 1800, and in 1801 into New England and Canada. In 1807 he visited the south of France, and in 1812 travelled in England and Germany. In 1816 he preached to the inhabitants of Hayti, and in 1818 and the two following years he travelled through Norway, Sweden, Russia, Greece, and Italy, having an audience of the czar, and preaching before the pope.

He returned to New York in 1820, and again travelled through Europe from 1831 to 1834, when he retired to Burlington. - See "Memoirs of Stephen Grellet," edited by B. Seebohm (Philadelphia, 1868).