CHAPTER IV

JOHANNES BEEKMAN

V. Johannes Beekman, baptized November 22, 1656,
third son of Lieut. Wilhelmus Beekman, died in Kingston,
N. Y., July 21, 1751, married March 4, 1685, Aeltje or
Aletta Thomas Popinja, daughter of Thomas Laurensen
Popinga from Groeningen and Maritje Jans his wife.
They lived, in 1725, in a house on North Pearl Street, below
Maiden Lane, Albany, N. Y., which was afterwards the
residence of Anthony Van der Heyden, described in
Irving's Bracebridge Hall. The Irving house of "Sunny-
side" was copied partly after this house and the iron
vane on one of its gables was transferred to "Sunnyside"
when the old Beekman home was pulled down in 1833.
Their descendants are stated in Some Records of the
Beekman Family, by James R. Gibson, Jr. They had
children:

Va.    Wilhelmus  Beekman,  baptized August  22,   1686,
married Martha Mott.    They had children:

(a)    Catharine Beekman, baptized February i, 1716,
died young.

(b)    John Beekman, baptized August 31, 1718.

(c)    Wilhelmus Beekman, baptized October 5, 1720.

(d)    Mali (Maria) Beekman, baptized March 24, 1723.

(e)    Elizabeth Beekman, baptized April 21, 1725.

(f)    Jacobus Beekman, baptized May 3, 1730.

(g)    Catharine Beekman, baptized September 27, 1727.
(h)    Alida Beekman, baptized October 29, 1732.

(i)    Christiana Beekman, baptized December 22, 1734.

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