Jacques Philipe Rossignol de Grandmont (1760-1809)
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This white person has 4 related events in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02618
- Given Name
- Jacques Philipe
- Family Name
- Rossignol de Grandmont
- Alternate Name
- Jacques Philipe Rossignol Lachicotte de Grandmont
- Birth Date
- 1760
- Death Date
- 1809
- Sex
- Male
- Biographical Description
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Jacques Philipe Rossignol de Grandmont was a man of French descent who was born in 1760 in Saint Domingue, which is now Haiti. His parents were plantation owners Philippe-Henry Rossignol Lachicotte de Grandmont and Elisabeth Robert de Cocherel. Grandmont owned a coffee plantation on the island in the area of Jeremie. He was appointed Councillor of the Parliament of Paris in the 1780s.
Grandmont left the island in the 1790s during the Haitian Revolution and moved his family to New Jersey. He brought several enslaved Black people with him, including Fifi, Alexander, and Azor (who would all run away in 1804), and probably others. At the turn of the 19th century, he lived in Trenton and was affiliated with the St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Philadelphia, where his name appears in various baptismal and marriage records from 1797 to 1801.
A relative of his, named Louis Rossignol de Belleanse, who was also a planter from Haiti, lived with him in Trenton around 1804. They soon moved together to Georgia, apparently with the goal of reestablishing themselves as planters there. Grandmont died in Savannah, Georgia, in 1809. His estate inventory, filed in Chatham County, Georgia, listed 16 enslaved people, some of whom may have come from Haiti to Trenton to Georgia with Grandmont.
The names of the people listed in his estate inventory were:
men named Mark, George, Bob, Kissy, Toby, Andrew, Darby, Randal, and Gregorie; a woman named Brigite and her two children Louis (aged 9) and Baptist (aged 4); a woman named Marie Noel and her two children Mary (aged 6) and Joseph (aged 5 months); and another woman whose name has been obscured by a tear in the archival document.
Grandmont's American will, signed in Georgia in 1808, indicated that he also claimed property in Haiti and that he had a separate will for that property. After Grandmont's death, the French government distributed compensation to former plantation owners who had fled Haiti and lost their plantations. Grandmont's heirs received compensation for the plantation that had been confiscated from him by the Haitian revolutionaries. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Francophone
- References
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J.P.R. de Grandmont estate, 1809. J.P.R. de Grandmont estate, 1809. Chatham County, Georgia, Probate Records, Folder 88.
Plantation owners of St. Domingue (1789) - R Names. Domingino project by Dr. Oliver Gliech.
Research file number 6932 for Jacques-Philippe Rossignol de Grandmont, received from Dr. Oliver Gliech (Domingino project, Berlin).
This person is represented on the following page(s):
Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/232557707 - Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson
- Jesse Bayker
- Linked Sources
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Author:
- Runaway ad for Azor, Alexander, and Fifi, by J. P. R. Grandmont (Runaway ad for Azor, Alexander, and Fifi, by J. P. R. Grandmont, "One Hundred Dollars Reward," Trenton Federalist, July 30, 1804, p. 3.)
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Additional Participant in:
- 1803-12-20 Freedom Seeking: Jack (Role: Mentioned Person)
- 1804-03 Freedom Seeking: Azor (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)
- 1804-05 Freedom Seeking: Fifi (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)
- 1804-07-23 Freedom Seeking: Alexander (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)
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- Agent