Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Rousselet, Nicholas, c1760-1811 |
Othernames |
Nicholas Gysbertus (Gilbertus) Rousselet. |
Born |
c. 1760 |
Deceased |
July 5, 1811 |
Deceased where |
Basse Terre, Guadeloupe? |
Places of residence |
Holland Boston, Mass. Portsmouth, N.H. Philadelphia, Penn. Demerara |
Occupation |
Auctioneer in Boston, where he became a naturalized US citizen on Feb. 28, 1785. Merchant in Portsmouth. Creator of the "Portsmouth Museum," in the vicinity of what is now Chapel Street between State and Daniel streets. Consul of the United States to the colony of Demerara and Essequibo, c1796-c1800. |
Spouse |
Catherine Elizabeth "Betsey" Moffatt, daughter of Sarah Catherine Tufton Mason a |
Children |
1. Lucy Adriana Rousselet, b. 1788, d. Mar. 8, 1811, m. Cornelius Heinrich de Munnick of Utrecht, banns of matrimony June 29, 1810. |
Nationality |
Dutch |
Notes |
Ancestry may have been Huguenot refugees from France, settled in the Netherlands. |
Relationships |
Spouses: Catherine Elizabeth "Betsey" Moffatt, daughter of Sarah Catherine Tufton Mason and Samuel Cutt Moffatt, b. Dec. 1764, d. Apr. 13, 1799 in Portsmouth, N.H., m. Mar. 26, 1787. |
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