Individual Details
Augustus Grasset
(Abt 1645 - 7 April 1712)
Augustus Grasset was a French Huguenot. Augustus and Mary Grasset naturalized in England May 8, 1682. They came to NY in 1689 where the last name took the form of Gracie or Greasie. He became a leading merchant and government official and one of the ''chefs de famille'' of the French church. He was also a slave owner and was murdered in the slave insurrection April 7, 1712.
On Monday morning, April 7, 1712, New Yorkers gasped at the bodies strewn about town after a night of unprecedented violence. August Grasset lay dead with "severall wounds about his Neck and head and fingers."
Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776, by Jon Butler, p.8, published 2001, Harvard University Press
On Monday morning, April 7, 1712, New Yorkers gasped at the bodies strewn about town after a night of unprecedented violence. August Grasset lay dead with "severall wounds about his Neck and head and fingers."
Becoming America: The Revolution before 1776, by Jon Butler, p.8, published 2001, Harvard University Press
Events
| Birth | Abt 1645 | France | |||
| Immigration | 1689 | New York | |||
| Death | 7 April 1712 | in the New York slave rebellion - New York |  |
Families
| Spouse | Marie Pele (1644 - ) |
| Child | Marie Grasset (1680 - 1755) |
| Child | Hester Grasset ( - ) |
| Child | Martha Grasset ( - ) |
| Child | Samuel Grasset ( - ) |