What is Beekman, New York?
'''Beekman''' is a [[community]] in [[Dutchess County, New York]], [[United States]]. It is named after Henry Beekman, whose family owned owned land in the county as well as [[Slavery|slaves]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Town History|url=http://www.townofbeekman.com/history.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009181618/http://www.townofbeekman.com/history.html|archive-date=2008-10-09|access-date=|website=Town of Beekman, NY|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=White|first=Philip L.|date=1999|title=Beekman, Henry (1688-1776), New York landowner and provincial assemblyman|url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-0101210|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-12|website=American National Biography|language=en|doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0101210|isbn=978-0-19-860669-7|quote=Beekman was not a self-made man. His [[Dutch people|Dutch]] ancestors were prominent locally in the turmoil associated with the [[Protestant Reformation]] and the Dutch struggle for [[independence]] from [[Spain]]. His immigrant grandfather, William Beekman, was an administrative subordinate to the governor of [[New Netherland]]. His father was a militia leader from Ulster County whose work in preparing for possible attacks by the French during King William’s War (1689–1697), plus a small gratuity to the governor, won him land grants later branded “as large as a middling county of [[England]].” These Dutchess County land grants (Rhinebeck Patent, 21,766 acres; Beekman Patent, 84,000 acres) became the basis for the younger Henry Beekman’s career.}}</ref> == References == <references />{{Dutchess County, New York}} {{US-geo-stub}} [[Category:Towns in New York (state)]] [[Category:Dutchess County, New York]]