Ancestry of
Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick

Maria Pafraet

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Herman Melville — 9th Generation
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  • Jan Pafraet 
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  • Hendrick Van Rensselaer
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  Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (Ahnentafel No:216 )

• Sources for Maria Pafraet

  • ¹ Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed., Some Colonial Mansions: and Those Who Lived in Them, Vol. 1, Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Company (1898), 165.
  • ² Van Rensselaer, Florence, The Van Rensselaers in Holland and in America, New York: The American Historical Company, Inc. (1956), 4.