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12. Cornelius Vanderbilt married his first cousin, Sophia Johnson, and they bore 13 children together.

On December 19, 1813, at age 19 Vanderbilt married his first cousin, Sophia Johnson. They moved into a boarding house on Broad Street in Manhattan.[citation needed]

They had 13 children together: Phebe in 1814, Ethelinda in 1817, Eliza in 1819, William in 1821, Emily in 1823, Sophia in 1825, Maria in 1827, Frances in 1828, Cornelius Jeremiah in 1830, George in 1832 (who died in 1836), Mary in 1834, Catherine in 1836, and another son named George in 1839.[13][14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt

The only reason I know this (aside from wiki where it comes and goes) is that my great great grandfather's mother was Eleanor Johnson, Sophia Johnson's sister. The Van Pelts came to Northern California as part of the enterprise that put steamships on San Franscisco Bay and as far up the Sacramento River as Marysville.

>>Brayton Douglass Van Pelt,

son of Jacob Van Pelt

and Eleanor Johnson, nephew of

Sophia Johnson that m. Cornelius Vanderbilt.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147900773/brayton-douglass-van_pelt