Rachel De Foreest Goewy

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Rachel De Foreest was born in December 1769. She was the daughter of East Manor residents Philip and Maayke Vandenbergh De Foreest. Perhaps she was their only child.

In August 1797, she married John A. Goewy at the Albany Dutch church. The first of several children was christened there in July 1798.

These Goewys made their home near the city's northern border - a short distance from where John practiced the saddler's trade. In time, their residence would come to be known as 209 North Market Street.

Rachel De Foreest Goewy died in April 1820 at the age of fifty. Her husband lived on in their Market Street home until his passing in 1828. Both of them were interred in the Dutch church "burial ground" until their remains were finally removed to the Albany Rural Cemetery.


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the people of colonial Albany Sources: The life of Rachel De Foreest Goewy is CAP biography number 5199. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.




first posted 12/30/16