Catharina Roseboom Fielding

Catharina Roseboom was born in June 1706. She was the daughter of Hendrick Roseboom, Jr. and his wife, Debora Staats Roseboom. She grew up in a merchant's home on Pearl Street.

In April 1729, she married newcomer George Fielding at the Albany Dutch church where she was a pewholder. Over the next three decades, however, her children were christened in New York City.

By mid-century, her family had settled in Albany where George Fielding was known as a silversmith.

In 1788, the second ward home of the "Widow of George Fielding" was listed on the Albany assessment roll. By that time, Catharina Roseboom Fielding had lived for more than eighty years.

Sources: The life of Catharina Roseboom Fielding is CAP biography number 1591. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.