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| | Gedeon Merlet |
 | | Emigrated to New Amsterdam (New York) with his wife, four sons, his uncle Philip Merlet, and his wife's cousin Jeanne Martijn, aboard the ship "De Purmerlander Kerck" on 12 October 1662. |
 | | Shortly thereafter, on 19 March 1663, Gideon, along with a number of other emigrants, petitioned the General and Council of New Netherlands for "grants of land and seed grain, with provisions for six months." Gideon subsequently received a grant of land on Staten Island, and it is there that he and his family settled. |
 | | New Amsterdam [New York], died 8/25/1681, New York, drowned with a friend Mary Marshall, after a canoe overturned in Hellsgate on the East River). |
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