Pieternelle (Nelly) Marlatt
1754–c. 1818
Baptised 17 June 1754 in New Jersey, daughter of Abraham Marlett and Martha Vail. Known as Nelly. She married her cousin Dirck (Richard) Marlatt in 1772 and died in Coshocton County, Ohio, about 1818.
Life events
| Baptised | 17 June 1754 | Dutch Reformed church, Readington or North Branch, New Jerseyas “Peter Nelly,” with her brother Gideon |
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| Married | 23 November 1772 | Hunterdon County, New Jerseylicence to marry Richard (Dirck) Marlatt |
| Died | about 1818 | Coshocton County, Ohio |
Research note: a Marlatt who married a Marlatt
Her husband was her father’s first cousin. He was a grandson of Abraham Marlett (1656–1716) through Dirck, a son of the second marriage; she was a great-granddaughter through Thomas, a son of the first. Lewis Vail, her cousin on her mother’s side, wrote in 1852 that her husband “though of the same name, was not of kin to her,” and seems to have misremembered her name as Elizabeth.
The original file entered her 1754 baptism as a son, “Pieter.” Her brother Peter was born a few years later.
Source: William P. Marlatt, Family of Abraham and Mary (Maple) Marlatt of New Jersey, Virginia and Ohio (30 September 2019).