Individual Details
Auguste Grasset
(Abt 1645 - 7 Apr 1712)
Auguste Grasset was a French Huguenot. Auguste 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
Read more here: https://www.abbottgenealogy.com/single-post/slave-insurrection-of-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
Read more here: https://www.abbottgenealogy.com/single-post/slave-insurrection-of-1712
Events
| Birth | Abt 1645 | LaRochelle, France | |||
| Marriage | Abt 1670 | Marie Pele | |||
| Immigration | 1689 | New York | |||
| Death | 7 Apr 1712 | in the New York slave rebellion - New York, New York |
Families
| Spouse | Marie Pele (1644 - ) |
| Child | Hester Grasset ( - ) |
| Child | Martha Grasset ( - ) |
| Child | Samuel Grasset ( - ) |
| Child | Marie Grasset (1680 - ) |
| Child | Auguste Grasset (1683 - ) |