Tabitha Heyer Brown

Tabitha Heyer was born in March 1778 and christened at the Albany Dutch church on April first. Named for a grandmother, she was the daughter of Gerrit and his second wife Jannetje Van Slyck Heyer. She grew up in the first ward home of a recently arrived "peruke maker" from New York.

In September 1798, she married Yankee newcomer Edward Brown also at the Dutch church. No baptisms have been noted in the extant records of early Albany churches although adolescents/young adults are shown on the census of the Southside Brown household in 1800.

These Browns lived on lower Hudson Street where Edward partnered with his younger brother Stanton in a landmark store that sold imported items and apparently also groceries.

At this point, the subsequent life of Tabitha Brown is unclear. However, a notice marking the passing of Edward Brown's wife "Mary" in August 1832, may suggest that Tabitha died sometime earlier. Thus, we move on for now from the life of Albany wife Tabitha Heyer Brown.

Sources: The life of Tabitha Heyer Brown is CAP biography number 8448. This sketch is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources.