i68                  THE BEEKMAN FAMILY

mill; thence south 8 degrees west 6 chains to a stake; thence
south 46 degrees east 29 chains 30 links to a sassafras tree
standing on the brink of the Millstone River, thence down
the said river with the courses thereof 6 chains 20 links
to the place of beginning; containing 128 acres and A of
an acre; excepting and reserving therefrom -h of an acre sold
to Jacob Van Dyke; also 34 of an acre for the use of a
burying-ground where the present graveyard now is; also
fio of an acre sold to Thos. Vanderveer, be the same more
or less.

Thus was the land of Beekman Cemetery reserved for a
burying-ground. It has been kept in order and the iron
fence around it repaired by money received from contri¬
butions by the family, but in order to insure a perpetual
supervision over it, so that it may not be neglected, it was
deemed best to legally incorporate it into a cemetery under
the "Act to authorize the incorporation of rural cemetery
associations and regulate cemeteries" (April 9, 1875) and the
several supplements thereto. Accordingly a meeting was
held on September 26, 1908, at the old Beekman Homestead
now the residence of Dr. Abraham Beekman Mosher, who
acted as Chairman of the meeting, which was also attended
by the following gentlemen: George W. Campbell, Lewis
Mosher, Theodore B. Hoagland, Schuyler C. Staats, Joseph
A. Skillman, A. S. Hoagland, and WilHam B. Aitken.

The Beekman Cemetery Association was incorporated
under the trusteeship of George W. Campbell, President,
WiUiam B. Aitken, Treasurer, and Dr. Abraham Beekman
Mosher, Secretary. The certificate of incorporation was
received in the office of the clerk of the county of Somerset,
at Somerville, N. J., on September 2^, 1908, and recorded
in Book 3 of Copartnerships and Corporations at page 28,
etc.

The descendants of Gerardus Beekman and of all persons
having an interest in said cemetery are entitled to the right
of burial therein, and for the purpose of carrying out this
intention, and under the act of New Jersey of March 12,
1890, "to enable the owners of land used for private burying-