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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 114 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The Beekman family, into whose hands the prop-erty thus fell after the Revolution, were descended from some of the early settlers of New Amsterdam or New York. William Beekman, the founder of the family in this State, came over from Holland in the same ship with Peter Stuyvesant, in lt>47. He married Catherine Van Bough, daughter of a well-28G HISTORY OF WKSTC11KSTHR COI NTY.