Aitken, William B., Distinguished families in America descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke.

(New York and London :  The Knickerbocker Press,  1912.)

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dren of Jacobus Beekman and EHzabeth de Peyster his

wife were:

(i)    Anatje Beekman, bom in 1716.

(2)    Jacobus Beekman, born in 1722.

(3)    Gerardus Beekman, bom in 1718, married, first,
Mary Beekman, daughter of Christopher Beekman,
his first cousin. He married second, Ann Doren and
they had children:

a.    Peter Beekman.

b.    Ann Beekman.

c.    Gerardus K. Beekman.

(4)    John Beekman, son of Jacobus Beekman and
EHzabeth de Peyster, born in 1720, married Elizabeth
Ellsworth, daughter of Theophilus Ellsworth of New
York City. His will, dated August 10, 1774, probated
August 29, 1774, is recorded in Liber L of Wills, page
128, at Trenton, N. J.    Children:

a.    James Beekman, married Sarah Lefferts, daugh¬
ter of Dirck Lefferts.

b.    Gerardus Beekman, married Sarah Paine.

c.    John Beekman, married Kisse Gile.

d.    Thomas Beekman, married Sarah Matthews.

e.    Theophilus Beekman, married Elizabeth Mat¬
thews.    Children:

1.    Elizabeth Beekman, married James Henry.

2.    Theophilus Beekman, who lived at Husdon,
N. Y.

f.    Elizabeth Beekman, married Colonel Henry Alex¬
ander Livingston, bom August 26, 1776, died in
1849.

Cornelia Beekman

IV. Cornelia Beekman, baptized April 11, 1655, died in
April, 1679, married on September 19, 1674, Isaac Van
Vleck, Captain of Militia and Alderman in New York
City. They had a daughter, who married Alexander
Baird, a lawyer, of Newtown, L. I.
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