From the Mellott-Eastman family tree:

http://www.reidmellott.com/Genealogy/getperson.php?personID=P3281741182&tree=metree

Abraham Merlette

Birth 26 Jan 1656 Long Island, Kings, New York, USA

(This is in error, as the Merlet family would not be in the New World for another 6 years.)

Gender Male

Died 1 Jun 1714 Pisacataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA

Person ID P3281741182

Mellott - Eastman Family Tree

Last Modified 20 May 2009

Father Gedeon La Plante Merlet,

b. Feb 1624, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France ,

d. Feb 1683, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA

Mother Margaret Martin,

b. 1622, Limbourg, Liege, Belgium ,

d. 25 Aug 1681, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA

Married 21 Aug 1644

Walloon Church, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Family ID F47 Group Sheet

Sources

1.[S3585957191] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Trees.

http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7873509&pid=-1013226114

From the page of his father in the Mellott-Eastman family tree:

http://www.reidmellott.com/Genealogy/getperson.php?personID=P3281738676&tree=metree

After living in Leyden from about 1643 until the 1650's, Gedeon, Marguerite and the first three children moved to Mannheim, in the German Palatinate, an area known as a haven for French Huguenots at that time. There two more sons were born and baptized, namely Abraham and Jean Pierre MERLET, MERLETTE, MARLETTE or MARLET.

From the records of the French Huguenot Church of Mannheim, Germany: "On February 7, 1656, was baptized in the Church of Mannheim, Merlette, Abraham, son of Gedeon and Marguerite Martin."

From SHIP PASSENGER LISTS: NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY (1600-1825), edited and indexed by Carl Boyer, 3rd (Self-Published: Newhall, CA, 1978), p. 130.

"October 12, 1662. In De Purmerlander Kerck Gedeon Merlitt, wife and four children, 15, 8, 6, and 4 years old." [The four sons were Josue or Josias; Poulus or Paul; Jean Pierre or John Peter; Abraham.]

The following is an address made by C. L. Marlatt on Oct. 27, 1935 on behalf of the Huguenot Memorial Association on the occasion of the 250th Anniversary of the Edict of Nantes. The address took place at the Memorial Church of the Huguenots at Huguenot Park, Staten Island, New York. "Two additional Huguenot immigrants have recently been honored by having their names recorded in this edifice, namely Gedeon Merlet and his youngest son, Abraham." ...

Gedeon's youngest son, Abraham, married about 1677 Christence Billieu, daughter of Pierre Billieu - a Huguenot immigrant of 1661 and prominent in the early settlement of Staten Island. Two children came from this union, viz., Margaret, baptized March 31, 1678, and Abraham, May 16, 1680.

We have little information as to Abraham, the youngest son of Gedeon, except that he was for a period collector for the southern part of Staten Island.

[Mr. C. L. Marlatt, who delivered the above address, referred to his ancestor, Abraham Merlet as "the youngest child" of Gedeon's family. Perhaps in 1935 the baptismal certificate of Jean Pierre Merlet had not yet been found at the French Huguenot of Mannheim, in the Palatinate region of Germany. The baptismal record of Jean Pierre Merlet (born 1658) indicates he was born after Abraham Merlet (born 1656).]

From Bill Marlatt's Gedeon Merlett Family Tree:

http://www.malott.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40&Itemid=54#i33

Abraham [2] Marlett (Gedeon [1] Merlet) was born in Mannheim, Baden, Germany 1656.

He married Christience Billeau in Staten Island, NY, 1678.

Abraham Marlett and Christience Billeau had the following child:

1. Abraham [3] Marlatt was born 16 May 1680.

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Christening: 2 FEB 1655/56 Huguenot Church, Mannheim, Palatinate, GERMANY