From the Archives: Biographies: Robert Vosburgh
The Demise of Peter Grawotz

In August of 1830 Robert Vosburgh’s pregnant wife, Abigail, was arrested for assaulting Peter Grawotz with a club.  Vosburgh said Grawotz had threatened to do Abigail and her family harm by saying that he would murder and massacre the defendant and her family.  It is suspected that Grawotz provoked the altercation by making a racial comment about a white woman carrying a black man’s child and by befriending a man who had murdered a slave named Isaac in Allegheny County. 

Grawotz later died of his injuries and Abigail was ordered to pay court costs of $3.00.

Source:  Court records, newspaper accounts, Karen James