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Every photograph, document, map and illustration used on Malott.net, 92 in all, with where each one came from and the pages it appears on. Photographs of family gravestones have their own page, the headstone gallery. Click any image to see it full size. If you recognize a photo, know more about one, or have one to share, please get in touch.

Jump to: Family photographs (14) · Portraits, people and places (13) · Records and documents (41) · Maps (9) · Emblems and figures (3) · Artists’ conceptions made with AI (11)

Family photographs 12

Snapshots and portraits of family members, from the family’s own albums.

Three smiling men holding up black T-shirts printed Sons of Malott, Washington, with a hooded skeleton holding a scythe — “Sons of Malott, Washington”: Mark Malott, who keeps this site, and his sons show off their town T-shirts.Credit: Mark Malott.Appears on: Places Named for the Family

Studio portrait of George D. Malott as a young soldier, seated, in a U.S. Army uniform and campaign hat, 1921 — George Dewey Malott (1899–1985) in his U.S. Army uniform, 1921.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: George Dewey Malott

George D. Malott, older, in glasses and a work apron in a machine shop, smiling and holding up a pin-up girl calendar from Schneider’s Truck Service — George Dewey Malott worked as a machinist at Fusite Corporation in Cincinnati.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: George Dewey Malott

Wanda and Leroy Malott, smiling and leaning together against the trunk of a 1930s car with a 1951 Kentucky license plate, a wooden barn behind them — Leroy and Wanda Malott, about 1951, sitting on a late-1930s car on the Kentucky property rented by Wanda’s father.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: Leroy Joseph Malott, Mary Wanda Malott

Leroy Joseph Malott in a dark suit and tie, leaning on a drill press in a machine shop, a workbench and steel door behind him — Leroy Joseph Malott in the Fusite Corporation machine shop in Cincinnati, standing in the same spot where his father, George Dewey Malott, posed with a pin-up calendar.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: Leroy Joseph Malott

Leroy Joseph Malott in a light suit, standing beside the front of a Plymouth sedan with a 1954 Ohio license plate — Leroy Joseph Malott with a Plymouth sedan wearing a 1954 Ohio license plate.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: Leroy Joseph Malott

Wanda Malott in a rose-colored dress, kneeling in front of a Christmas tree with a young blond girl holding a doll and a smiling boy in suspenders, a television set beside them — Wanda Malott at Christmas with her eldest son and daughter.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: Mary Wanda Malott

Mildred Adams as a young woman with bobbed hair and a cream lace dress, smiling on a white park bench, with houses and an early automobile behind her — Mildred “Milly” Adams at about 18 years old, around 1928.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: Mildred Adams

Mildred Malott in glasses and a pink print dress seated on a floral couch beside her son Robert, who holds a cigarette and a book, with a white poodle perched on the couch back behind him — Robert E. Malott with his mother, Mildred Malott, and his dog, a spunky little poodle, perched on the back of the couch.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: Mildred Adams, Robert E. Malott

School portrait of a teenage Ray Malott with slicked-back hair, white shirt and dark tie, labeled Norwood High 1956-57 — A young Ray E. Malott, son of George Dewey Malott, in his Norwood High School portrait, 1956–57.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: Ray E. (Raymond) Malott

Robert E. Malott and his wife standing beside a gold Corvette Stingray convertible on a street near Norwood High School, a brick building with white columns behind them — Robert E. Malott, “Uncle Bob,” son of George Dewey Malott, and his wife beside his Corvette Stingray, in front of the old Brass Rail Cafe near Norwood High School, Norwood, Ohio.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: Robert E. Malott

Black-and-white portrait of a smiling young sailor in a white U.S. Navy cap and dress uniform — Robert E. Malott, son of George Dewey Malott, in his U.S. Navy portrait.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: Robert E. Malott

Portraits, people and places 13

Portraits from other collections, places connected with the family, and the family crest.

Blue-and-gold Pennsylvania state historical marker titled Simon Girty (1741–1818) — The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission’s marker for Simon Girty, placed in 2001 near his birthplace.Credit: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission marker (2001). Photo shared with Malott.net.Appears on: Captured on the Ohio: The Malott Family’s Ordeal of 1780, Simon Girty

Black-and-white engraving of a frontiersman in a feathered headdress and fringed hunting dress, holding a rifle, standing at the edge of a tent — Simon Girty as a nineteenth-century illustrator imagined him, artist unknown.Credit: Artist unknown, 19th century. Wikimedia Commons, via the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.Appears on: Captured on the Ohio: The Malott Family’s Ordeal of 1780, Simon Girty

A large brass Huguenot cross hanging on a pale wall: a Maltese cross with heart-shaped openings and a dove suspended below — A Huguenot cross at the French Church du Saint-Esprit, New York.Credit: Photographed at the French Church du Saint-Esprit, New York.Appears on: Our Family Crest

The Malott family crest used on this site: a red shield with three silver stars, beneath a knight’s helmet crowned by a rearing silver beast, with red and silver mantling and a scroll reading Malott — The crest used on this site, drawn from the arms displayed at the French Church du Saint-Esprit.Credit: Drawn for Malott.net from the arms displayed at the French Church du Saint-Esprit, New York.Appears on: Our Family Crest

A hand-painted coat of arms: a red shield with three silver stars under a steel helmet and a rearing silver beast, red and silver mantling, and a scroll reading Marlatt — The painted Marlatt coat of arms at the French Church du Saint-Esprit, New York.Credit: Photographed at the French Church du Saint-Esprit, New York.Appears on: Our Family Crest

A red shield with three white stars mounted on a white wall beneath a dark nameplate reading MARLATT — The Marlatt shield and nameplate on the wall of the French Church du Saint-Esprit, New York.Credit: Photographed at the French Church du Saint-Esprit, New York.Appears on: Our Family Crest

Abby Lillian Marlatt about 1917–18, when she served on the home economics advisory committee of the U.S. Food Administration.Credit: U.S. National Archives, Food Administration records, 1917–18; public domain.Appears on: Abby Lillian Marlatt

Studio portrait of a young Charles L. Marlatt with a mustache, in a dark suit and bow tie, seated — Charles L. Marlatt, photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston, probably in the 1890s.Credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston, photographer. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division; public domain.Appears on: Charles Lester Marlatt

Wood-grain matchbook cover with a drawing of the Buckeye Log Cabin under tall pines, reading Buckeye Log Cabin, 32 miles east of Cincinnati, Mount Orab, Ohio — A Buckeye Log Cabin matchbook cover: “32 miles east of Cincinnati / Mount Orab, Ohio.”Credit: Shared with Malott.net.Appears on: Harry C. “Bud” Malott

Old photograph of a long log building with a stone chimney and two gasoline pumps in front, in the snow, headed Taking A Trip Through Time — The Buckeye Log Cabin, Mt. Orab, with its gas pumps out front: “the place to go in Brown County from the 1950’s through the 1970’s.” From a “Taking A Trip Through Time” newspaper feature; photo provided by the Brown County Historical Society.Credit: Brown County Historical Society, from a “Taking A Trip Through Time” newspaper feature.Appears on: Harry C. “Bud” Malott

Black-and-white portrait of a smiling older man with short hair and large glasses, in a light jacket and striped tie, with an Ohio flag pin and another small pin on his lapels — Bud Malott, probably from his years in the Ohio House of Representatives (1973–1990); he wears an Ohio flag pin on his lapel.Credit: Shared by Heather Blessing on the Ohio Statehouse Alumni Facebook page.Appears on: Harry C. “Bud” Malott

Oval sepia portrait of an elderly man with white hair, in a dark coat, white shirt and dark silk neck-cloth — Peter Marlett of Mount Vision, New York, probably photographed in the 1850s or 1860s.Credit: Town of Laurens Historical Society Archives; shared by Yvonne Eckert on Facebook.Appears on: Peter Marlatt

Colour illustration labelled Simon Girty: a man in a towering red-and-white feathered headdress and a blue coat with gold braid and red buttons, holding a hatchet — Simon Girty on a vintage trading card.Credit: Vintage trading card, artist unknown. Shared with Malott.net.Appears on: Simon Girty

Records and documents 44

Census pages, military papers, marriage records, newspaper notices, and pages from printed and manuscript sources.

Printed text: Page 93. Inventory of estate of Walnovers Letin, of Dover, Staten Island, who hath lately deceased,Credit: Detail of p. 23, *Abstracts of Wills* (New-York Historical Society, 1893). Scan from the Internet Archive.Appears on: Timeline of Gedeon Merlet

Printed text, page 24: taken by Gideon Marlett, Constable, in presence of Peter Belew, Simeon Corne, Tys Barenson, and many others then present, January 16, 1671/2. One lot and housing, 1,000 pounds. Whole is 2,592 pounds.Credit: Detail of p. 24, *Abstracts of Wills* (New-York Historical Society, 1893). Scan from the Internet Archive.Appears on: Timeline of Gedeon Merlet

Handwritten Dutch ledger entry headed Gideon Merlitt debet, charging 39 guilders for him, 39 for his wife and 97 guilders 10 for four children aged 15, 8, 6 and 4, totaling 175 guilders 10 — Gideon’s account in the West India Company’s ledger of emigrants’ passage money, folio 64, under the heading “Amsterdam in N[ieuw] Nederlant A[nn]o 1662.” New York State Archives, series A1810, vol. 14.Credit: Dutch West India Company ledger of passage money, folio 64. New York State Archives, series A1810, vol. 14.Appears on: The Company’s Offer: Gideon Merlet and the Dutch West India Company

Warren County, Ohio, marriage record no. 8921: application, license and certificate for Jay Orin Kinner and Annie Luiza Malott, 14 April 1924 — Marriage record of Jay Orin Kinner and Annie Luiza Malott (born South), Warren County, Ohio, Probate Court, 14 April 1924.Credit: Warren County, Ohio, Probate Court marriage records.Appears on: Annie Luiza South

Warren County, Ohio, marriage record no. 8469: application, license and certificate for George G. (George D.) Malott and Annie Luiza South, 19 July 1921 — Marriage record of George D. Malott and Annie Luiza South, Warren County, Ohio, Probate Court, 19 July 1921.Credit: Warren County, Ohio, Probate Court marriage records.Appears on: Annie Luiza South, George Dewey Malott

1930 U.S. census page for Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, listing Lowell F. South, his wife and children, his divorced daughter Annie Kinner, and grandchildren Helen, 7, and a boy of 1 — The 1930 census, Union Township, Warren County: Lowell F. South’s household, with Annie (“Kinner,” divorced), her daughter Helen, 7, and her son, 1½ (lines 63–73).Credit: 1930 U.S. census, U.S. National Archives.Appears on: Annie Luiza South

1870 census page for Green Township, Brown County, Ohio, listing Delos C. Malott, Margaret E., David D., William S. and Sarah M. Malott, with Susan Waits and her four children, followed by the households of Calvin Malott and Theodore Malott — The 1870 census, Green Township, Brown County, Ohio: Delos C. Malott’s household (lines 6–15), with Calvin Malott (lines 16–22) and Theodore Malott (lines 35–38) nearby.Credit: 1870 U.S. census, U.S. National Archives.Appears on: David D. Malott, Delos C. Malott, Margaret Eveline Waits, Sarah Malissa Malott, William Samuel Malott

1850 census page for Green Township, Brown County, Ohio, listing Prather Molott, 59, farmer, born in Maryland, with Sarah, 47, Holly A., 18, Decatur W., 17, and Hugh C., 14 — The 1850 census, Green Township, Brown County, Ohio: Prather “Molott,” 59, a farmer born in Maryland with real estate worth $2,000, and his wife Sarah, 47, with Holly A., Decatur W. and Hugh C. (lines 10–14).Credit: 1850 U.S. census, U.S. National Archives.Appears on: Decatur Washington Malott, Hollender Ann “Holly” Malott, Hugh Calvin Malott, Prather Malott, Sarah Reeves

Patterson Park General Hospital, Baltimore, card for D. C. Malott, age 17, single, private, 126th Ohio, admitted June 24, 1864, injury in the back — Patterson Park Hospital, Baltimore, card for a “D. C. Malott” of the 126th Ohio, 24 June 1864.Credit: U.S. National Archives; copies obtained by Mark Malott.Appears on: Delos C. Malott

Civil War draft registration ledger page, June 1863, listing Launer Malott, 38, carpenter, with 13 months’ infantry service, and Delaris C. Malott, 38, farmer, both of Green Township — The June 1863 draft registration (Schedule II, Class II), Sixth Congressional District of Ohio, dated 26 June 1863: “Malott, Delaris C.,” 38, farmer (line 7), listed just below another Green Township Malott, “Launer,” 38, a carpenter who had already…Credit: Civil War draft registration records, U.S. National Archives.Appears on: Delos C. Malott

Casualty sheet for Delos C. Malott, private, 126th Ohio, discharged October 1864 at Washington, D.C. — Casualty sheet recording his discharge at Washington, D.C., in October 1864.Credit: U.S. National Archives; copies obtained by Mark Malott.Appears on: Delos C. Malott

Army of the United States Certificate of Disability for Discharge for Delos C. Malott, 126th Ohio Volunteers, Douglas Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1864 — Certificate of Disability for Discharge, Douglas Hospital, Washington, D.C., signed 29 September 1864.Credit: U.S. National Archives; copies obtained by Mark Malott.Appears on: Delos C. Malott

Douglas Hospital card for Delos C. Malott, age 38, of Brown County, Ohio, admitted 19 July 1864, diagnosis chronic hepatic disease — Douglas Hospital, Washington, D.C., admission card, 19 July 1864.Credit: U.S. National Archives; copies obtained by Mark Malott.Appears on: Delos C. Malott

Muster and descriptive roll card for Delos C. Malott, private, 126th Ohio Infantry, drafted at Hillsboro 14 May 1864, born Brown County, Ohio, age 38, farmer — Muster and descriptive roll of drafted men for the 126th Ohio Infantry, Columbus, Ohio, 2 June 1864.Credit: U.S. National Archives; copies obtained by Mark Malott.Appears on: Delos C. Malott

The original 1864 discharge of Delos C. Malott, printed with an eagle and the words To all whom it may concern, on aged, folded paper in a frame — “Know ye, That Delos C. Malott, a Private… 126th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, who was drafted on the Fourteenth day of May… Sixty-four, to serve Three years or during the war, is hereby Discharged from the service of the United States, this Eighth…Credit: The original discharge, passed down in the Malott family.Appears on: Delos C. Malott

Handwritten note dated August 13, 1883: admitted to Douglas General Hospital, Washington, D.C., July 19, 1864; reported discharged October 1864 — A reply of 13 August 1883 confirming his admission to Douglas Hospital on 19 July 1864 and his discharge in October 1864.Credit: U.S. National Archives; copies obtained by Mark Malott.Appears on: Delos C. Malott

Handwritten War Department note dated July 27, 1883, asking for any record of Delos C. Malott, 126th Ohio, drafted May 14, 1864 — A War Department records query about his service, 27 July 1883.Credit: U.S. National Archives; copies obtained by Mark Malott.Appears on: Delos C. Malott

Open marriage register showing entry 543: Delos C. Malott, 29, to Margaret Evalin Waits, 22, license 16 November, with the justice’s certificate that he married them on 17 November 1853 — The marriage register, entry 543 (page 138): license issued 16 November 1853 to “Delos C. Malott, 29, to Margaret Evalin Waits, 22,” with the certificate of James Perrin, J.P., that he married them on 17 November 1853.Credit: Brown County, Ohio, Probate Court marriage register.Appears on: Delos C. Malott, Margaret Eveline Waits

Handwritten “Births” page of a family Bible listing James O. Mellott, Laura F. E. Deshong, Luther Gerald Mellott and six more Mellott children born at Saluvia, Fulton County, Pennsylvania — The “Births” page of the family Bible.Credit: Mellott family Bible, Fulton County, Pennsylvania. Photo shared by Jen Knepper on Facebook.Appears on: Doris Anna Mellott, Elena Vera Mellott, James O. Mellott, Joanna Truth Mellott, Laura F. E. Deshong, Luther Gerald Mellott, Margaret Abba Mellott, Robert Wilton Mellott, Vestra Charlene Mellott

1910 census page for Sterling Township, Brown County, Ohio, listing the households of Mary Malott with her son Frederick, William S. Malott with his wife and sons, and Aaron and Mary C. Malott — The 1910 census, Sterling Township, Brown County, Ohio: Mary Malott and her son Frederick (lines 14–15), William S. Malott’s household (lines 32–35), and Aaron and Mary C. Malott (lines 47–48).Credit: 1910 U.S. census, U.S. National Archives.Appears on: Fred Malott, Lou Ann Stratton, Margaret Eveline Waits, Milo Malott, Thurman Malott, William Samuel Malott

Honorable Discharge from the United States Army for George D. Malott, Private, Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 58th Infantry, Camp Lewis, Washington, 7 July 1921 — George D. Malott’s honorable discharge, Camp Lewis, Washington, 7 July 1921.Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: George Dewey Malott

Enlistment record of George D. Malott, Private, enlisted January 30, 1921, at Fort Thomas, Kentucky — His enlistment record: enlisted at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, 30 January 1921; character “Very Good.”Credit: Malott family collection.Appears on: George Dewey Malott

1930 U.S. census page for Cincinnati, Ohio, listing George Malott, 31, laborer at a sash and door company, his wife Mildred, 20, and son George, 2 — The 1930 census, Rhode Island Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio: George Malott, 31, a laborer at a sash and door company, his wife Mildred, 20, and their son George, 2 (lines 13–15).Credit: 1930 U.S. census, U.S. National Archives.Appears on: George Dewey Malott

Newspaper death notice for George D. Malott, January 1985 — The 1985 death notice of George D. Malott, which names all five of his and Mildred’s children.Credit: Newspaper death notice, 1985. Malott family collection.Appears on: George Dewey Malott, George Thomas Malott, Ray E. (Raymond) Malott, Robert E. Malott, Rosella M. Malott

World War II draft registration card for George Dewey Malott, 5230 Hunter Avenue, Norwood, Ohio, born March 10, 1899, at Greenbush, Ohio — His World War II draft registration card, 1942.Credit: World War II draft registration cards, U.S. National Archives.Appears on: George Dewey Malott

Newspaper photo of three men in suits beside a pipe organ, with an inset of the Buckeye Log Cabin and its roadside sign — “Buckeye Log Cabin, Route 32, Mt. Orab, Ohio, one of Southern Ohio’s largest and favorite dining spots,” has just bought a Conn electronic pipe organ, played five evenings a week and Sunday afternoons.Credit: *The Cincinnati Enquirer*, 1970.Appears on: Harry C. “Bud” Malott

Newspaper obituary headlined Harry Malott was Ohio lawmaker for 18 years, with a photo of Mr. Malott — “Harry Malott was Ohio lawmaker for 18 years,” by Dana DiFilippo, The Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 January 1997.Credit: *The Cincinnati Enquirer*, 30 January 1997.Appears on: Harry C. “Bud” Malott

Newspaper death notice for Mildred C. Malott, April 1986 — Mildred’s death notice, April 1986.Credit: Newspaper death notice, 1986. Malott family collection.Appears on: Mildred Adams

Printed calendar entry, July 12, 1694: petition of Paul Richards for a survey of thirty acres of meadow land near the mouth of Fresh Kill, on Staten Island, formerly owned by Gideon, Joshua and Paul MarletCredit: Detail of p. 242, O’Callaghan, *Calendar of Historical Manuscripts* (1866). Scan from the Internet Archive.Appears on: Paulus Marlet

Printed calendar page 64, 1678: warrant of January 19 to George Commines, constable of Staten Island, to arrest Paulus Marlett and others for abducting a servant girl of Christopher Billop, and order of January 24 for the discharge from prison on bail of Paul Marlett and othersCredit: Detail of p. 64, O’Callaghan, *Calendar of Historical Manuscripts* (1866). Scan from the Internet Archive.Appears on: Paulus Marlet

Printed French baptism entry: Batême, Wednesday 28 March 1694, theodore son of Jean Pierre melot and marie Melot, born the 27th of January last at midnight, baptized by Monsieur Peiret, presented by Jean Sevenhoven and Catherine le Mercier, signed J. Vanseuenhoue, Catherine Laty, J. P. Melot and Peiret, ministreCredit: Detail of p. 35, *Registers of the Église Françoise à la Nouvelle York* (1886). Scan from the Internet Archive.Appears on: Theodoras Mellott

Handwritten page of Dory Malott's 1832 pension declaration, ending with his signature, Dory Malott — The last page of his declaration, sworn in open court on 6 November 1832, with his signature, “Dory Malott.” It records his birth on 7 December 1755 from his father’s Bible and his move to Clermont County in 1805.Credit: Revolutionary War pension file S.2737, U.S. National Archives; viewed on Ancestry.Appears on: Theodore "Dory" Malott

Printed pension certificate record for Dory Malott of Clermont County, Ohio, number 13,328 — His pension record: Ohio certificate no. 13,328, issued 26 June 1833 at $80 a year from 4 March 1831, under the Act of 7 June 1832.Credit: Revolutionary War pension file S.2737, U.S. National Archives; viewed on Ancestry.Appears on: Theodore "Dory" Malott

Handwritten first page of the 1835 will of Abraham Marlatt of Clinton Township, Upper Canada — The first page of his will, 11 February 1835: the bequests to his eldest daughter Mary Comfort, to his son Paul, and to Mary Null, “House Keeper to me.”Credit: Surrogate Court of the Niagara District, Upper Canada; copy shared by Amy Brennan.Appears on: Abraham Marlatt

Handwritten second page of the 1835 will of Abraham Marlatt, ending with his mark and three witnesses' signatures — The second page, with the division among his daughters, the three executors, his mark, and the witnesses William Walker, Allen Simmerman and Samuel Simmerman.Credit: Surrogate Court of the Niagara District, Upper Canada; copy shared by Amy Brennan.Appears on: Abraham Marlatt

Newspaper notice headed Sheriff's Sales: property of Daniel Malott of Washington County, Maryland, to be sold for cash, listing enslaved men, women and children, livestock and grain — A sheriff’s sale of the property of Daniel Malott of Washington County, Maryland, between 1814 and about 1832, listing fifteen enslaved people. The first record on this site of slaveholding in the family.Credit: A Washington County, Maryland, newspaper; title and date not yet identified.Appears on: Daniel Malott

1965 Application for Headstone or Marker for Theodore (Dory) Malott, listing his enlistment at Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1776, six enlistments totalling two years seven months, pension 13328, his officers, and Greenbush Cemetery — The 1965 application for his government foot stone, which records his Revolutionary War service, his pension number and his officers.Credit: U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861–1985, U.S. National Archives; viewed on Ancestry.Appears on: Theodore "Dory" Malott

1900 U.S. census page for Sterling Township, Brown County, Ohio, listing William Malott, his wife Louanna and six children including George D., and the widow Mary Malott with her son Fred — The 1900 census, Sterling Township, Brown County, Ohio: William Malott’s family (lines 73–80) and the widow Mary Malott with her son Fred (lines 89–90).Credit: 1900 U.S. census, U.S. National Archives.Appears on: William Samuel Malott

Maps 9

Historic maps and surveys, and maps drawn for this site.

Map of the cemeteries of Brown County, Ohio — The cemeteries of Brown County, Ohio, with its towns and main roads.Credit: Drawn for Malott.net from OpenStreetMap data.Appears on: Cemeteries of Brown County

The country of the story, drawn for this site in the style of an 18th-century engraved map, with the names used in 1780.Credit: Drawn for Malott.net; coastlines and rivers from Natural Earth.Appears on: Captured on the Ohio: The Malott Family’s Ordeal of 1780

Modern map of the Mohawk River at Fort Hunter, New York, with Schoharie Creek, Auriesville, Tribes Hill, Route 5S and the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, and a shaded area just west of Schoharie Creek and south of Route 5S marking the approximate location of Gideon Marlett’s claim — The same ground today. The shaded area is an approximate location, worked out from the survey’s landmarks and its scale of 15 chains (990 feet) to the inch; the survey’s actual boundaries are not shown on this copy.Credit: Drawn for Malott.net. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.Appears on: A Marlett Claim on the Mohawk River

Modern map of the Mohawk River at Fort Hunter with the river banks, Schoharie Creek, island and road traced from the 18th-century survey overlaid in red; the old river runs in a gentle arc north of the modern river’s deep southward loop — The river, creek, island and road from the old survey (red), traced by hand and laid over today’s map.Credit: Drawn for Malott.net. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.Appears on: A Marlett Claim on the Mohawk River

Hand-drawn copy of an 18th-century survey showing Schoharie Creek meeting the Mohawk River, the Fort Hunter church, a road up the river, and claims including Gideon Marlett’s Claim, Adam Putman’s Claim, William Hall’s claim and Barclay’s Patent of 27 November 1741 — “Map of Vacant Lands on the Mohawk River, being copy of Map in Office of Sec’y of State,” scale 15 chains to an inch, copied by Alexander Fauteux.Credit: “Map of Vacant Lands on the Mohawk River,” copied by Alexander Fauteux from a map in the office of the New York Secretary of State.Appears on: A Marlett Claim on the Mohawk River

Map of the North Atlantic showing sailing routes from Texel and Amsterdam to New Amsterdam: a direct route west through the English Channel, a wartime route north around Scotland, a route by Madeira and the Azores, and a trade-wind route by the Canary Islands, Curaçao and the Gulf Stream, with the documented 1636–37 track of the Rensselaerswyck — Typical routes from the Dutch Republic to New Netherland, with the prevailing winds and the Gulf Stream.Credit: Drawn for Malott.net from Natural Earth coastlines.Appears on: The Purmerland Church: The Ship That Brought Gideon Merlet to New Netherland

Detail of the patent map showing a narrow strip of salt meadow labeled Paulus Richards Aug. 4, 1694, 30 acres, on the north bank of Fresh Kills near its mouth — Detail: the 30-acre strip of salt meadow at the mouth of Fresh Kills, patented to Paulus Richards in 1694, which the family had held since 1675.Credit: Detail of Skene’s 1907 patent map. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.Appears on: The Staten Island Years: Gideon Merlet’s Family in the New World, 1663

Detail of the patent map showing lots labeled Abm. Marlett July 26, 1694, 80 acres; Paulus Richards Aug. 4, 1694, 243 acres; John Bodine; William Barker; Abraham Lakeman; and Peter Billeau Feb. 1, 1693-4, beside Great Kills — Detail: Abraham Marlett’s 80 acres and, below it, the 243 acres re-patented to Paulus Richards in 1694, with Peter Billeau’s land to the east toward Great Kills.Credit: Detail of Skene’s 1907 patent map. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.Appears on: The Staten Island Years: Gideon Merlet’s Family in the New World, 1663

Blueprint map of Staten Island divided into numbered colonial land patents, each labeled with a patentee’s name, date and acreage, with the Kill van Kull to the north, the Narrows to the east, the Lower Bay to the south and the Arthur Kill to the west — Frederick Skene, Map of Staten Island, Richmond Co., N.Y., showing the Colonial Land Patents from 1668 to 1712 (New York State Engineer and Surveyor, 1907), from a blueprint tracing of 1914.Credit: Frederick Skene, *Map of Staten Island showing the Colonial Land Patents* (1907). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.Appears on: The Staten Island Years: Gideon Merlet’s Family in the New World, 1663

Emblems and figures 3

Illustrations and charts used in the history articles.

The Huguenot Cross: a gold Maltese cross with fleurs-de-lis between the arms and a dove hanging below — The Huguenot CrossCredit: The Huguenot cross emblem. From the original Malott.net site.Appears on: The Huguenots: Why Our Family Left France

Map of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East with a red line tracing a route from Morocco east across North Africa to the Middle East, north to Georgia in the Caucasus, west through Turkey and the Balkans, across the Alps, and ending at northern France — Figure 7: Notional migration route of the early ancestors of the Merlet family.Credit: From William P. Marlatt’s Marlatt-Merlet DNA Project report; base map from Google Maps.Appears on: Marlatt-Merlet DNA Project Report

Bar and line chart of Marlatt-Merlet DNA Project joins from October 2011 to late 2018, rising steadily from 1 to 70 members, with a jump of 8 in May 2017 — Figure 1: Project joins, 2011–2018.Credit: From William P. Marlatt’s Marlatt-Merlet DNA Project report; data from Family Tree DNA.Appears on: Marlatt-Merlet DNA Project Report

Artists’ conceptions made with AI 11

Imagined scenes created with a generative AI image tool to illustrate the history articles. They are not historical pictures, and each is labeled as such where it appears.

AI-generated depiction: a ragged frontier mother and her young children arrive on the muddy riverbank at the palisaded town of Detroit with Shawnee escorts, the mother reaching toward her teenage daughter, who is led away by Shawnee women toward canoes; British soldiers in red coats stand at the gate and a church spire and fort rise behind — An artistic depiction of Sarah Malott and her children arriving at the British post of Detroit, about 1780, while her daughter Catherine is taken to live among the Shawnee.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: Captured on the Ohio: The Malott Family’s Ordeal of 1780

AI-generated depiction: puffs of white smoke drift from a wooded riverbank as a frontier family crouches in alarm behind chests and barrels on their flatboat, while a second flatboat carrying horses pulls away downriver in the mist — An artistic depiction of the moment the ambush began near Fish Creek on the Ohio River, about 1780, created with generative AI.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: Captured on the Ohio: The Malott Family’s Ordeal of 1780

AI-generated depiction: a frontier family in 18th-century clothing on a wooden flatboat loaded with chests, barrels and a spinning wheel, drifting down a wide, muddy river between misty wooded hills in early spring, with a second flatboat carrying cattle and horses behind — An artistic depiction of Peter Malott’s family travelling down the Ohio River toward Kentucky, about 1780, created with generative AI.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: Captured on the Ohio: The Malott Family’s Ordeal of 1780

Painting-style image of an immigrant family in wool cloaks and linen caps at a ship’s rail among trunks and barrels, looking across an icy harbor at a snowy Dutch town with a windmill, church spires, anchored ships and a fort flying the Dutch flag at sunrise — An artist’s conception of the family’s first sight of New Amsterdam in February 1663, at the end of a four-month winter crossing.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: The Merle Family Comes to New Netherland, 1662

Illustrated chart titled 17th Century Huguenot Dress and Fashion, showing a Huguenot man, woman, boy, girl, elderly man and a mother with baby on a Dutch waterfront, with panels of typical hats, men’s and women’s clothing, fabrics and accessories — How a Huguenot refugee family like the Merles may have dressed: wool and linen in sober earth tones, broad-brimmed felt hats for the men and white linen caps for the women.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: The Merle Family Comes to New Netherland, 1662

Map-style illustration titled Nieuw Amsterdam op’t Eylant Manhattan, Nieuw Nederlandt, 1663, showing the fort at the tip of the island, streets of houses and gardens, a windmill, docks and ships, and the wall across the north of the town — New Amsterdam as the Merles would have found it in 1663: the fort at the island’s tip, the town of about 1,500 people, and the wall that later gave Wall Street its name.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: The Merle Family Comes to New Netherland, 1662

Map-style illustration titled Staten Eylandt, Nieuw Nederlandt, 1663, showing a wooded island with scattered farms and fields, the salt marshes of the Fresh Kill, ships in the surrounding waters and New Amsterdam in the distance — Staten Island in the style of a 1663 Dutch map, with the salt meadows of the Fresh Kill where Gideon and his sons later held land.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: The Merle Family Comes to New Netherland, 1662, The Staten Island Years: Gideon Merlet’s Family in the New World, 1663

Painting-style image of a three-masted Dutch fluyt flying the red, white and blue flag, driving through heavy gray-green seas under storm clouds, its stern panel painted with a village church and the name De Purmerlander Kerck, with a distant ship and a rain squall on the horizon — An artist’s conception of De Purmerlander Kerck on its winter crossing of 1662–63, created with an AI image generator from a description based on the historical details on this page.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: The Purmerland Church: The Ship That Brought Gideon Merlet to New Netherland

Painting-style image of four English warships at anchor off New Amsterdam on a calm late-summer afternoon, with a rowboat under a white flag of truce heading for the town, and Fort Amsterdam, its church, a windmill and gabled houses on the shore beneath an orange, white and blue Dutch flag, where townspeople crowd the wharf — An artist’s conception of the English squadron arriving off New Amsterdam in late August 1664, with a boat carrying terms to the town under a flag of truce.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: The Staten Island Years: Gideon Merlet’s Family in the New World, 1663, The Company’s Offer: Gideon Merlet and the Dutch West India Company

Painting-style image of Peter Stuyvesant, gray-haired in a black cloak and white collar, with a silver-banded wooden leg and a walking stick, standing on the grassy rampart of Fort Amsterdam beside a cannon, a torn letter at his feet, while citizens and a minister hold up a petition and plead with him, and English warships lie at anchor in the harbor — An artist’s conception of Director General Peter Stuyvesant on the walls of Fort Amsterdam, as New Amsterdam’s leading citizens urge him to surrender.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: The Staten Island Years: Gideon Merlet’s Family in the New World, 1663

AI-generated depiction: a young militia fifer in a hunting shirt, brown coat and cocked hat plays a wooden fife in a snowy camp of log huts at sunrise, beside a seated drummer with a painted rope-tension drum, while soldiers warm themselves at a fire — An artistic depiction of a young Maryland militia fifer and drummer in the winter camp at Valley Forge, 1777–78, created with generative AI.Credit: Created with a generative AI image tool for this site; an imagined scene, not a historical picture.Appears on: Theodore "Dory" Malott