From the April 2, 1844 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Among the passengers on board of the packet ship Yorkshire, just arrived, are a giant, standing nearly eight feet in his boots; a giantess, about seven feet in height, and a dwarf twenty-three inches tall, or thereabout, being three inches shorter than the famous Tom Thumb. The giant and giantess are man and wife, and will make their first appearance at Barnum’s Museum.”