From the Mellott-Eastman family tree:

http://www.reidmellott.com/Genealogy/getperson.php?personID=P3281741155&tree=metree

Birth 17 Sep 1645

Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Gender Male

Died 1715

Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States

Person ID P3281741155

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=-1013226141

From his father's page on the Mellott-Eastman family tree:

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

There are baptismal reccords there for their children on these dates: "September 17, 1645: Josias (Josue), son of Gedeon Merlette. The witnesses were Claude Marcy, Jean Martijn, Jeanne Martijn, and Clasinne Tertelim."

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.]

Source: NEW YORK (COLONY) CALENDAR OF COUNCIL MINUTES 1668-1783, Compiled by Berthold Fernow. (Harbor Hill Books, Harrison, N. Y., 1987). p. 37:

Mar. 20, 1684 "Order granting the petition of Josias and Paulus Marlitt for a survey and division of their inherited land part of which has been sold to Paulus Richards." [This indicates that Gedeon Merlet had died prior to Mar. 20, 1684, because his two oldest sons had

inherited his land.]

From Bill Marlatt's Gideon Merlett Family Tree:

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

Josias [2] Merlet (Gedeon [1]) was born in Leiden, Holland 1645.

He married Sarah Peatt.

Josias Merlet and Sarah Peatt had the following child:

1. George [3] Merlet was born 1685.