

Mariken came to New Netherlands in 1641 with her parents on the ship Den Eyckenboom "The Oak Tree". Her 1st husband Claes Allertsen Paradys she married in 1655 from Zutphen was killed in the Indian Massacre on Staten Island in Sept. 1655. She then went to New Haven with her parents and the other members of the family in 1655 and there married Matthias Hatfield in a double wedding August 25, 1664, her sister Susanna Melyn married John Winans at the same time. Mariken and Matthias had eleven children.
Will of Matthias dated April 19, 1684 was proved Dec. 13, 1687.
She was initially buried in the Old Burying Ground (Defunct), Newark, Essex Co., NJ and possibly reinterred at Fairmount Cemetery (Newark, Essex Co., NJ) in a mass crypt in the 1890's, when the Old Burying Grounds became defunct. This was where (and when) her 2nd husband was reinterred.
Parents
Cornelis Melyn 1600–1663
Jannetje Andrians VanMyert Melyn 1604–1674 [1] (Janneken Andriaens) (1600 - 1684) [2]
Spouses
Claes Allertszen Paradijs 1630–1655 m. 1655
Matthias M Hatfield 1635–1687 (m. 1664)
Siblings
Cornelia Melyn Schellinger 1627–1717
Jacob Melyn 1640–1706
Susannah Melyn Winans 1643–1692
Isaack Melyn 1646–1693
Children 11x
Cornelius Hetfield 1666–1718
Issac Hatfield 1667–1709
Abraham Hatfield 1670–1706
Mary Hatfield Miller 1673–1742
Elizabeth Hatfield Laulon 1675–1725
[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57095890/mariken-hatfield
[2] http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/l/a/Stephen-G-Blackbur... familytreemaker.genealogy...
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March 29, 1637
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Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands
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March 29, 1637
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Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, County of Holland, Dutch Republic
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March 29, 1637
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Niewe Kirk, Amsterdam, Holland
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March 29, 1637
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1655 |
November 3, 1655
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New Amsterdam, New Netherland
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November 1655
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Staten Island, Richmond, New York, United States
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1666 |
1666
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NJ, United States
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1667 |
1667
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Elizabeth, Union County, NJ, United States
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