Beekman family

The Beekman family is a historic family of New York state, tracing to mid-seventeeth century New Amsterdam in the Dutch province of New Netherlands.

Family tree

Descendants of the Beekman family of Overijssel^[1] include:

Wilhelmus Beekman (1623-1707), Treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1653/58-1663
- Hendrick Beekman (1652-1716), Governor of Delaware, Mayor of New York City, namesake of the town of Beekman, New York
  - Henry Beekman, prominent colonial American politician and landowner
  - Cornelia Beekman (1693–1742) x Hubertus Livingston
- Gerardus Beekman (1653–1723), colonel, surgeon, Governor of the Province of New York
  - William Beekman (1684–1770), New York City physician
    - James Beekman (1732–1807), New York City merchant
      - Gerard Beekman (1774–1833)
        James William Beekman (1815–1877), New York City landowner
- Johannes Beekman (1656–1751)
  - Thomas Beekman (1689–1759)
    - Johannes Beekman (1723–1792)
      - John J. Beekman (1761–1795)
        John P. Beekman (1788–1861), New York physician and politician
        
        Thomas Beekman (1790–1870), American politician, U.S. Representative from New York

References

^ William Benford Aitken, Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, Knickerbocker Press, 1912

[1] William Benford Aitken, Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, Knickerbocker Press, 1912

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