CHAPTER II

hendrick beekman

II. Hendrick or Henry Beekman, first son of Wilhelmus
Beekman, baptized March 9,1652; died in 1716; married
on June 5, 1681, Johanna Lopers, baptized October 30,
1650, widow of Joris Davidson and daughter of Captain
Liiyt Lopers of Stockholm. Jerome B. Holgate in
American Genealogy states that Hendrick Beekman's
wife was Joanna de Loper of Boston, daughter of a
Dutch Admiral. The Governor and Council on Janu¬
ary 25, 1684, appointed him Justice of the Peace of
Ulster County. He was a member of the first Assem¬
bly under authority of the British King which met in
New York City on April 9, 1691, the delegates from
Ulster and Dutchess Counties being Henry Beekman
and Thomas Garton. Hendrick Beekman and Johanna
Lopers his wife had children:
Ha.    William Beekman, who died in Holland at the

age of eighteen years.
IIZ^. Catryntie, or Catharine Beekman, bom Septem¬
ber 16, 1683, died in 1745, leaving no children: she
married first Cornelius Exveen, second on December
12, 1712, Johannes, or John Rutsen, Captain of
Dragoons of Ulster County, baptized at Kingston,
N. Y., August 24, 1690, son of Rutger Jacobse
Rutsen. She married third Albert Pawling.
lie. Cornelia Beekman, bom in 1696, married Gil¬
bert Livingston, son of Robert Livingston, who was
bom in Ancram in Teviotdale, Roxburghshire, Scot-

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