BEEKMAN, William
The ancestor of the Beekman family. He married Catharine De Boagh, daughter of a skipper on the North River; she was said to have been a beautiful woman. Beekman was for some time ViceDirector or Deputy Governor of the Dutch colony on the Delaware River. In 1670 he purchased the farm in the present vicinity of Beekman Street, a property that covered several blocks. The old mansion house stood on an eminence above the East River. He died in 1707.
