page_title: Wilhelmus Beekman
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Wilhelmus Beekman / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Wilhelmus (William) Beekman built his home on his vast estate at Rhinebeck, NY, the citying named in his honor.
context_page_description: Wilhelmus Hendricksen Beekman — also known as William Beekman and Willem Beekman — was a Dutch immigrant to America who came to New Amsterdam from the Netherlands in the same vessel with Director-General and later Governor Peter Stuyvesant.
  Beekman soon became Treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, beginning a long life in public service that included being Mayor of New York City, Governor of Delaware, 1653-1664 and Governor of Pennsylvania, 1658-1663.
  He is the progenitor of the Beekman family in America.
context_section_description: Following his emigration to America, Wilhelmus Beekman married Catalina de Boogh on September 5, 1649, a belle in the society of New Amsterdam and the daughter of the wealthy Hendricks de Boogh of Albany, New York. They had the following children:
  Maria Beekman (1650–1679), who married Nicholas William Stuyvesant, son of Governor Peter Stuyvesant, on January 5, 1672
  Hendrick "Henry" Beekman (1652–1716), a Judge who married Johanna de Loper Davidson, daughter of Captain Jacob de Loper and Cornelia Melyn. Johanna, who was a widow of Joris Davidson, was the granddaughter of Cornelius Melyn, Patroon of Staten Island. Henry Beekman served as a Justice of the Peace for Ulster County.
  Gerardus Beekman (1653–1723), who was elected president of the council and acting governor of the Province of New York in 1710.
  Cornelia Beekman (1655–1679), who married Isaac Van Vleck on September 19, 1674
  Johannes Beekman (1656–1751), who married Aeltje Thomas Popinga. He is the progenitor of the numerous Beekmans of Kingston
  Jacobus Beekman (1658–1679)
  Wilhelmus Beekman (1661–1702), who died unmarried
  Martin Beekman (b. 1663)
  Catherine Beekman (1668–1707).
  Beekman occupied the Beekman homestead on the estate purchased from Thomas Hall, in a home about where Pearl and Frankfort Streets are today, until his death on September 21, 1707, at the age of eighty-five years.
caption: Beekman Home at Rhinebeck abt 1688
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