
Guide to the Beekman Family Papers
1652-1937
MS 51
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
(212) 873-3400
New-York Historical Society
Collection processed by Alisa Harrison and John Winter
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on June 24, 2019
Description is in English
Descriptive Summary
Title: | Beekman family papers |
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Dates [inclusive]: | 1652-1937 |
Abstract: | The collection contains material pertaining to multiple generations of the Beekman family, a prominent New York City family of Dutch ancestry. Between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, the Beekmans were intimately involved in the city's mercantile business, politics, and philanthropy. |
Quantity: | 30.25 Linear feet (70 Boxes) |
Location: | Manuscript cage |
Call Phrase: | MS 51 |
Biographical / Historical
The Beekmans were one of New York's most prominent families. Their name is perpetuated in New York City's Beekman, Ann, and William Streets, all named after family members, and in other namesake places throughout New York state.
The family first settled in the colony of New Netherlands in the mid-seventeenth century. Dr. William (Wilhelmus) Beekman (1623-1707), born in 1623 of protestant refugees Hendrick Beekman and Maria Baudartius, emigrated from the Netherlands to the colony in 1647 with Petrus Stuyvesant and served on the governor's administration in multiple capacities. In 1652, William purchased Corleas Hook's plantation on the Hudson river. A few years later he was appointed Vice Director of the Southern River (the Delaware River) territory in 1658, and for nine years was one of the burgomasters of New Amsterdam. In 1664, after he took an oath of allegiance to the English King Charles II, William was appointed sheriff of Esopus in Ulster County, where he served until 1672. During his service in 1670, he purchased an extensive property on Pearl Street along east river, extending west to present-day Beekman/William Streets and "The Beekman Swamp" west of that. In 1675, with the eruption of King Philip's War in New England, he and other prominent New Yorkers petitioned Governor Andros to dispose of their estates and move elsewhere in the colony. They were denied and imprisoned, but later released on bail. In 1683, he was named mayor and later purchased territory in Rhinebeck; he stayed on this property until his death in 1707. His son, Henry Beekman, was an Ulster County militia leader and, in return for his service, was provided with several large land grants in Dutchess County. Another son, Gerardus Beekman, served as temporary governor of the colony from 1709 to 1710.
Henry Beekman (1688-1776), the child of Henry Beekman and Johanna Lopers, was born in Ulster County in 1688. He married Janet Livingston in 1721, and after she passed away in 1724, remarried to the wealthy Gertrude Van Cortlandt in 1726. Henry, a prominent local landholder, was elected in 1724 to serve on the colonial assembly. He also completed a short-lived stint as New York County sheriff between 1732 and 1734. Henry retired from the assembly in 1758 and died at the family property in Rhinebeck in 1776.
William Beekman (1725-1795) was the son of Dr. William Beekman and Catherine De La Noy and brother of Cornelia Beekman Walton. A bachelor, Beekman managed the family real estate businesses and, on occasion, invested in mercantile ventures. During the summers, William resided with his bachelor brother Abraham at Rural Cove, one of the East River Beekman family estates.
Cornelia Beekman Walton (1708-1786), sister of James and William Beekman, married wealthy merchant William Walton on January 27, 1731, for which she had an eight hundred pound dowry from her father, Dr. William Beekman. Together they resided at the "Old Walton House" on Franklin Square in Manhattan. Cornelia's financial accounts, particularly after the death of her husband in 1768, are very well represented within the collection and indicate her familiarity with business and trade.
James Beekman (1732-1807), brother of William Beekman, married Jane Keteltas, the daughter of a New York Dutch merchant family, on October 5, 1752. James began his lucrative career as a dry goods merchant in 1750, and his business boomed during the Seven Years' War but suffered heavily during New York City's occupation in the American Revolution. James, a patriot, during the war found his Mount Pleasant estate at Turtle Bay taken over by British commanders including Sir William Howe and Sir Henry Clinton and was forced to relocate his family to Kingston. In the post-Revolutionary era, Beekman and his family were active members in New York City's high society and, after retiring to his Mount Pleasant estate in the early nineteenth century, he passed away on April 6, 1807. The mercantile papers of Beekman's business are well represented within the collection.
Jane Keteltas Beekman (1734-1817) married James Beekman in 1752. Though records are incomplete, Beekman gave birth to between ten and twelve children; these included sons William, James, and Gerard, and daughters Mary, who married Stephen Bayard, and Jane, who married Stephen Van Cortlandt. Jane was largely responsible for coordinating the education of her many children and provided personal tutoring to the daughters prior to their formal instruction. Records within the collection—including an account book bearing her name—indicate that she was intimately involved in the family's mercantile business and possessed a shrewd business acumen. Jane, a fixture of New York's high society in the early national period and a frequent entertainer, split her time between Hanover Square in the fashionable business district and the family's Mount Pleasant Estate.
William Beekman (1754-1808) was the eldest son of at least ten children born to James Beekman and Jane Keteltas. He graduated from Princeton in 1773, but continued to take classes well into 1775 and remained a bachelor throughout his life. William was bequeathed the family estate at Mount Pleasant upon the death of his father in 1807, but he passed away one year later and thus never retained possession of the property.
James Beekman, Jr. (1758-1837) was the son of James Beekman and Jane Keteltas. He attended Princeton at age ten but did not graduate, and so was instead educated by private tutors during the period of the imperial crisis. Not much information is available regarding his business or domestic affairs. James lived comfortably off of the proceeds of his deceased father's estate and later inherited the Mount Pleasant property after his mother's death in 1817. He married Lydia Watkins Drew and, after her death in 1833, became embroiled in a dispute over her estate with her executrix, Elizabeth Dunkin, that is well documented within the collection.
Gerard Beekman (1774-1833), son of James Beekman and Jane Keteltas, was the youngest child. Raised first in Kingston during British occupation and then in New York City, Gerard attended and graduated from Columbia College. An introspective and deeply religious man, Beekman led a quiet life as a bachelor until, at age thirty-six on April 9, 1810, he married Catherine Sanders, the daughter of a prominent upstate family. He and his wife only had one child survive to adulthood, James William. Beekman died of internal injuries in a stagecoach accident in 1833 and his wife would pass away two years later.
Theophilus Elsworth Beekman (1790-1858) was the son of Theophilus Beekman and Elizabeth Matthews. Beekman served as a Lieutenant in the United States Army during the War of 1812. He married Marietta (Maritta) Hathaway, whose father's papers are contained within this collection.
James W. Beekman (1815-1877) was the only living child of Gerard Beekman and Catherine Sanders. He inherited his father's considerable estate at Oyster Bay and Madison Avenue after Gerard's death in 1833. A philanthropist and politician, James W. graduated from Columbia College in 1834. He would later attend Columbia Law School but, after graduation, elected not to practice. In 1840, he married Abian (Abby Anne) Steele Milledoler, daughter of the Reverend Philip Milledoler, President of Rutgers College. Together they had five children: Catherine B., Gerard, Philip, James William II, and Cornelia, of whom all but Philip would survive to adulthood. Beginning in his thirties, James W. was active in the administrative affairs of the New-York Historical Society, the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, New York Society Library, Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, the Woman's Hospital, other antebellum benevolent organizations, and was a trustee at Columbia University. In 1848, he was nominated as a "Silver Gray" Whig candidate for the New York State Assembly. He held two terms in the New York State Senate where he grappled with issues relating to immigration, slavery, temperance, and the funding of public education. After retiring from politics following an intense political upheaval over the candidacy of Hamilton Fish to the United States Senate, he continued to devote his time to philanthropy and political issues. In 1861, James W. visited Washington with Thurlow Weed and Erastus Corning to attend the "Peace Convention." His retirement pursuits included publishing on family history in the article "Founders of New York" in the book "Prominent Families of New York," and he also published the book "Early European Colonies on the Delaware." He died from pneumonia on June 15, 1877. His political, personal and institutional records are very well represented within the collection.
Abian "Abby" Steele Milledoler (1820-1897) was the daughter of Reverend Phillip Milledoler, a president of Rutgers College, and Margaret Steele Milledoler. She married James W. Beekman in 1840. She gave birth to four children: Gerard, James, Catherine, and Cornelia.
Gerard Beekman (1842-1918) was the son of James W. Beekman and Abian Milledoler. He, like Beekmans of previous generations, attended Columbia College and graduated in 1864. He received both Master of Arts and Bachelor of Law degrees in 1867, though he never actively practiced law. Instead, he served as a real estate manager for the many Beekman family estates he inherited at his father's death. Gerard, like his father, was active in charitable and philanthropic ventures and, in 1910, he founded the Beekman Family Association and endowed the association on his death. He was very active in pursuing Beekman family genealogical material during his lifetime, and much of the genealogy within this collection was compiled by him at the turn of the twentieth century.
Sources:
Aitken, William Benford. Distinguished Families in America. New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press, 1912.
Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Lamb, Martha J., and Burton Harrison. History of the City of New York: Its Origin, Rise, and Progress. 3 vols, New York: A.S. Barnes, 1877.
Mann, Bruce H. Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
New York (State). Legislature. Senate. "Documents of the Senate of the State of New York." Albany: Printed by E. Croswell, 1831.
Scoville, Joseph Alfred. The Old Merchants of New York City. New York,: Carleton, 1863.
White, Philip L. "Beekman, Henry"; http://www.anb.org/articles/01/01-01210.html; American National Biography Online, February 2000.
White, Philip L. Gerard G. Beekman, and James Beekman. The Beekman Mercantile Papers, 1746-1799. 3 vols New York: New-York Historical Society, 1956.
White, Philip L. The Beekmans of New York in Politics and Commerce, 1647-1877. New York: New-York Historical Society under a grant from the Beekman Family Association, 1956.
White, Philip L. Beekmantown, New York: Forest Frontier to Farm Community. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.
Scope and Contents
The Beekman Family Papers consist largely of correspondence (mostly in English, some in French and Dutch), business papers, legal papers, financial documents, real estate documents and court records. Many of these papers center around the business and political affairs of the family in New York City and their various landholdings and accounts in New York State.
This collection was organized by Philip L. White during a fellowship before 1950. He was a doctoral student in history at Columbia when he set to work gathering the information that served to comprise his biography on the Beekman family, entitled "The Beekmans of New York," an entry in the American National Biography for Henry Beekman, and the three-volume published collection of business papers in the "Beekman Mercantile Papers." Along the way, he compiled more than four hundred pages of notes which provides an interesting--albeit somewhat limited--summary of this collection. It also seems apparent that the last few boxes, numbered 40-47, arrived after his fellowship ended and thus remain unaccounted for in the summary. There is one oversized box in this collection, Box 47. A PDF-version of White's summary description is available here (note that it may take a few minutes to download).
In addition to the manuscript collection, White also consulted the bound volumes of the Beekman family collection in his work on the mercantile papers. Housed separately from the Beekman Family Papers, the bound volumes can be found online at the N-YHS library catalogue by searching for "BV Beekman." Each set of volumes listed online has a brief description and a date range that accurately describes its contents.
The "Arrangement" section below represents the most recent attempt to reorganize the collection in a more user-friendly way: chronologically. As the researcher will notice, White's notes and the "Container List" are not always accurate, nor do they represent the entirety of this collection. This online finding aid--constructed predominantly as a box and folder list--aims to fill those gaps and create a functional point of entry into this collection.
More detailed information about the contents of the collection is provided in the box and folder descriptions.
Arrangement
This collection has not been fully processed or arranged. It is loosely organized by family member, as reflected in the box and folder list. To further assist researchers, the quick-reference guide below is designed to group the boxes and folders chronologically as well as by Beekman head of family. When a folder or box is placed under a particular family member, it means the bulk of that material is from that time period. Note that the date ranges are approximate only.
Key: "Box #" : "Folder #"
Ex: "1:2, 3, 4-5, 9" means Box 1, Folders 2, 3, 4 through 5, and 9
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Henry Beekman (1688-1776): 1:12-13, 20(17th Century),
William Beekman- (1725-1795): 1:21-22, 11:1, 17(A), 17(B), 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24(A), 24(B), 27:1, 3-4,6-11, 31(A):1, 31(B),
James Beekman (1757-1837): 4:2, 13(A), 13(B), 14(A), 14(B), 15(A), 15(B), 31(C), 32(A), 32(B), 34(A), 34(B),
William Beekman Jr. (1754-1808): 16(A), 16(B),
Gerard Beekman (1774-1833): 1:10, 11, 18, 19, 4:1, 3-5, 5(B):12, 6(B):13-17, 7(A)-Part 1:1-7, 8(B):10, 17-18, 11:2, 31(A):2-7,
Theophilus E. Beekman (bulk of doc from 1810's-1820's): 42
James W Beekman (1815-1877): 1:1-9, 14, 23-25, 2:1-10, 3:1-5, 5(A):1-9, 5(B):11(Part I-II), 13, 6(A):1-12, 6(B):18, 7(A)-Part I:8-12, 7(A)-Part II, 7(B):22-28, 8(A):1-9, 8(B):11-16,19, 9:1-7, 10:1-3, 11:3-10,12-13, 25(A), 25(B), 26(A)1-5, 27:2,5, 30(A), 30(B), 38(A), 38(B), 41(A), 41(B), 44:1-8,
Gerard Beekman (1842-1918): The bulk of the genealogical material is filed within these boxes and folders (James W. Beekman and future generations engaged heavily in family genealogy) 8(B):20, 12:1-8, 26(A):5-7, 26(B):8-9, 28(A), 28(B), 29, 38(B): 7 (Not much here but look at the end of the folder for genealogy), 39(A), 39(B), 40(A), 40(B), 43(A), 43(B), 44:9, 46,
Josephine L. Beekman, Recollections (1872-1953): 1:17,
Beekman Family: Typically children's school papers, art, poetry, college admissions cards, and other documents that were filed separately from official or personal correspondence. 5(A): 10, 5(B): 14-17, 11:11, 33, 36 (Circa 1750-1800), 37 (Bulk 18th Cent), 44:10-12, 45,
OVERSIZED BOXES: 47
Access Points
Subject Names
- Beekman, Henry, 1688-1776
- Clinton, George
- Livingston, Peter R., 1766-1847
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Document Type
- Account books
- Accounts
- Bills
- Bonds (legal records)
- Business papers
- Business cards
- Contracts.
- Deeds.
- Indentures
- Legal correspondence
- Letters (correspondence).
- Legal files
- Maps
- Personal correspondence
- Photographs.
- Receipts
- Wills
- Correspondence.
Subject Organizations
- New-York Historical Society
- New York (State). Court of Chancery.
- Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (U.S.)
- Union Club (New York, N.Y.)
- Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.)
Subject Topics
- Churches -- New York (State) -- New York
- Food -- United States
- Education - New York (City) - 19th century
- Legislators -- New York (State)
- Real property -- New Jersey
- Real property -- New York (State) -- New York
- Slavery -- New York (State)
- Temperance -- New York (State).
Subject Places
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- London, England
- United States -- Religion -- 19th century
Family Name(s)
- Van Cortlandt family
- Walton Family
Administrative Information
Access restrictions
Open to qualified researchers. Portions of the collection that have been microfilmed will be brought to the researcher in that format and can be made available by Interlibrary loan. Researchers on site may print out unlimited copies from microfilm reader-printer machines at per-exposure rates. See guidelines in Reading Room for details. Photocopying undertaken by staff only. Limited to twenty exposures of stable, unbound material per day. (Researchers may not accrue unused copy amounts from previous days.) Items that include presidential signatures will be presented to researchers in duplicate form.
Use restrictions
This collection is owned by the New-York Historical Society. The copyright law of the United States governs the making of photocopies and protects unpublished materials as well as published materials. Unpublished materials created before January 1, 1978 cannot be quoted in publication without permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
This collection should be cited as the Beekman Family Papers, MS 51, The New-York Historical Society.
Provenance
Permanent loan from the Beekman Family Association.
Container List
Box 1, Beekman Family, Correspondence, Legal Documents, Diaries, 1652-1937
Scope and ContentsFor additional detail, see White's guide, Volume 1, Pages 1-2, and Volume 2, Pages 426-438. White's descriptions are not organized by folder. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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Box: 1 | Folder : 1 | Mr. and Mrs. James W. Beekman, Correspondence from Children in Switzerland, Letters
from Catherine Beekman while at Mrs Haines School, School Copybooks, Report Cards |
1850-1870 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 2 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence from John N. Beekman, William F. Beekman, Eight Letters
from Mrs. James W. Beekman to Friends
Scope and ContentsMaterial regarding James and John B. is missing from White's guide. |
1855-1875 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 3 | Mr. and Mrs. James W. Beekman, Correspondence from Son Gerard
Scope and ContentsLetters pertain primarily to Gerard Beekman's study abroud, and are in both English and French. |
1855-1875 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 4 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence from Rev. Maunsell Van Rensselaer and Mrs. Betsy
Van Rensselaer |
1855- 1868 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 5 | Mr. and Mrs. James W. Beekman, Correspondence to and from William S. Milledoler |
1850-1860 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 6 | Mr. and Mrs. James W. Beekman, Correspondence from Captain and Mrs J.H. Graham and
Cornelia Graham |
1854-1861 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 7 | Mr. and Mrs. James W. Beekman, Correspondence from Mr. and Mrs. Jacob G. Sanders,
John Sanders, and James B. Sanders |
1855-1867 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 8 | Mr. and Mrs. James W. Beekman, Correspondence from Mrs. William Axtell Depeyster and
J. Watts Depeyster |
1854-1868 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 9 | Mr. and Mrs. James W. Beekman, Correspondence from Rev. and Mrs. P. Martin Brett and
Cornelia Brett; also, correspondence from Cornelia Brett to Catherine Beekman |
1854-1858 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 10 | Gerard Beekman, Correspondence (includes 1709 letter from Queen Ann regarding land
grants in Imperial NY) |
1709, 1810-1831 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 11 | Correspondence to and from B., Catherine, Deborah, or Elizabeth Beekman |
1779-1840 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 12 | Henry Beekman, 1711-1741, Correspondence and Legal Documents |
1711-1741 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 13 | Henry Beekman, 1742-1745, Correspondence (bulk from Gilbert Livingston) |
1742-1745 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 14 | Henry R. and James W. Beekman, Correspondence |
1850-1886 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 15 | Henry Beekman, 1746-1753 |
1746-1753 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 16 | Johannis Jr., Jacob, James J. Johannis, John C., John K., John, John James, John Jacob
Beekman; Correspondence, Accounts, Agreements, Land Surveys |
1736-1835 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 17 | Josephine L. Beekman, Recollections |
1937 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 18 | Margaret, Maria, Peter Q., Sally, Verdine, William, and Samuel Beekman; Correspondence,
Agreements, Estate Papers |
1768-1850 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 19 | Magnus Beekman, Listing for the Corporation |
1801 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 20 | William Beekman, Dutch Documents (formerly in uncatalogued R.R. Livingston collection) |
1652-1669 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 21 | William Gerard Beekman, Legal Documents |
Undated | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 22 | Patent Blueprint for Wawayanda |
Undated | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 23 | Deed from Mary Elizabeth G. Beekman and Others to John G. Beekman, Trustee of Mary
Depeyster |
1847 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 24 | James Beekman Diaries, 1851, 1852, 1853 |
1851-1853 | |
Box: 1 | Folder : 25 | James Beekman Diaries, 1861, 1866, 1867 |
1861, 1866-1867 | |
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Box 2, James W. Beekman, Correspondence, Circa 1850-1870
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's Guide, Volume 1, pages 2-23, which contains item-level detail' however, many folders are organized alphabetically and thus do not line up to the container list directly. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 1 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Received
Scope and ContentsIncludes institutional documentation for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the N-YHS, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
1870's | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 2 | James W. Beekman, Series of Letters to Dr. William B. Casey, Senator James Dixon,
Rev. Charles M. Jameson, Edward S. Rand, Baron Roenne, Dr. John K. Sappington, William
P. Wainwright |
1854-1864 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 3 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Received (Alphabetical by sender last name) |
1860-1864 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 4 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Received |
1857-1858 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 5 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Received |
1859 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 6 | James W. Beekman, Matias Romero Letters |
1864-1868 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 7 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Received |
1854 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 8A | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Received |
1855 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 8B | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Received
Scope and ContentsNot all material in this folder is listed in White's notes. |
1856 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 9 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Received |
1847, 1851-1852 | |
Box: 2 | Folder : 10 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Received from Bryant Clay, Colfax, Grant, Mitchell,
Scott, Sherman, Steele (includes bound letterbooks and loose letters) |
1851-1867 | |
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Box 3, James W. Beekman, Miscellaneous, Circa 1790's, 1820's - 1870
Scope and ContentsSee White's guide: Volume 1, pages 24-27. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 1 | James W. Beekman, Notes, Clippings (regarding institutions and organizations) |
1826-1886 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 2 | James W. Beekman, 3 school reports, 24 bills and receipts, Europe 1854, 1 Summons
to Chancery Court 1859 |
1828-1859 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 3 | Gerard Beekman (1774-1833), Surveys and Accounts for 14 Leroy Place, 1828 and Manhattan
Co Account Book, 1827-1832 |
1827-1832 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 4 | James W. Beekman, Accounts and Receipts (Bulk 1850-68) |
1796-1868 | |
Box: 3 | Folder : 5 | James W. Beekman, Notes of the Committee on a Village of Cottage Hospitals |
undated | |
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Box 4, James Beekman, Gerard Beekman, 1790's - 1841
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's guide: Vol 1, pages 28-39. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 1 | Record of Correspondence between James Beekman, Jr. (d. 1836) and Mrs. Elizabeth Dunkin
(executrix) regarding Disposition of Estate of Beekman's Wife Lydia (d 1837)
Scope and ContentsWhite's notes do not describe all the material within this folder. |
1830-1836 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 2 | Bill of Sale for Negro Slave in 1753 (Slave owned by Catherine Beekman), Checkbook
for the Manhattan Company, 1834-1835, Correspondence of Gerard Beekman 1798, Samuel
Beekman 1778, Misc. Accounts |
1753-1835 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 3 | Last Will and Testament of Gerard Beekman in 1833, Stock and Bond Certificates, Property
Inventories, Beginning of Dunkin-James Beekman Controversy |
1812-1841 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 4 | Abstract of Will of James Beekman (one later made), Inventories of Estates, Copies
of Bonds, circa 1830, Correspondence (Catherine Beekman From son James W. Beekman,
1834) |
1818-1834 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 5 | Rent Books, Bank Books, Business Papers Primarily of Gerard Beekman |
1815-1833 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 6 | Accounts of Gerard and James Beekman, Indentures, Agreements |
1793-1837 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 7 | Accounts, Indentures, Insurance, Reciepts (bulk James W. Beekman) |
1832-1836 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 8 | Assignment of Certificate in NY Society Library from William Beekman to William Beekman,
Jr., Assignment of Pews #52 in New Dutch Church and #5 in North Church, Account of
Furniture in William Beekman's House |
1793 | |
Box: 4 | Folder : 9 | Accounts, Receipts, Letters regarding James Beekman, Jr., Lydia Beekman, and Elizabeth
Dunkin, Subscriptions, Estate Papers |
1823-36 | |
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Box 5(A), James W. Beekman Correspondence, Circa 1790's to 1871
Scope and ContentsSee White's guide, Volume 1, pages 41-62. His description has been subsequently divided into boxes 5A and 5B. 5A consists largely of correspondence. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 5(A) | Folder : 1 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence |
1837-1871 | |
Box: 5 | Folder : 1 | |||
Box: 5(A) | Folder : 2 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence |
1837-1845 | |
Box: 5(A) | Folder : 3 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence |
1840-1845 | |
Box: 5(A) | Folder : 4 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence |
1840-1842 | |
Box: 5(A) | Folder : 5 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence |
1846 | |
Box: 5(A) | Folder : 6 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence |
1847-1848 | |
Box: 5(A) | Folder : 7 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence |
1849 | |
Box: 5(A) | Folder : 8 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence |
1853 | |
Box: 5(A) | Folder : 9 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence, Compositions, and Essays |
1828-1834 | |
Box: 5(A) | Folder : 10 | James W. Beekman, Sketches, Watercolors, Maps, Penmanship, Children's Items, Exercises
of Gerard and Catherine Beekman |
1820-25, undated, 1850 | |
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Box 5(B), Diaries and School Notebooks
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 5(B) | Folder : 11 (Part 1) | Correspondence, Accounts (bulk James W. Beekman), envelope |
1854-1860 | |
Box: 5(B) | Folder : 11 (Part 2) | Correspondence, Accounts, Envelopes |
1777-1875 | |
Box: 5(B) | Folder : 12 | Gerard Beekman, Columbia College Cards, Admissions |
1789-1792 | |
Box: 5(B) | Folder : 13 | Diaries and Pocketbooks of James W. Beekman, Dated 1849, 1850, 1856, 1863 |
1849-1863 | |
Box: 5(B) | Folder : 14 | School Notebooks of Cornelia and Kate Beekman |
1849-1863, undated | |
Box: 5(B) | Folder : 15 | School Notebooks of Nellie Beekman |
1863, Undated | |
Box: 5(B) | Folder : 16 | School Notebooks, Willie Beekman and unidentified |
1842, 1860, undated | |
Box: 5(B) | Folder : 17 | School Notebooks, no name of pupil |
undated | |
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Box 6(A), James W. Beekman, Real Estate and Business Papers, 1811-1870's
Scope and ContentsSee White's guide: Vol 1 pages 63-77. His descriptions have since been divided between boxes 6(A) and 6(B), with the bulk of 6(A) holding 19th century materials, 6(B) holding 18th century materials. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 1 | Assessments |
1854-1860 | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 2 | Report to the Board of Governors of the Society of the New York Hospital |
1866 | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 3 | Notes on the founding of New York Hospital, notes on the history of medicine (bulk
19th century) |
1624-1871, undated | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 4 | Bills for construction |
1842-1843 | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 5 | Assessments to Central Park and 51st Street |
1856-1860 | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 6 | Fire insurance policies |
1865-1876 | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 7 | Business Papers, Accounts relating to Property, Dutch Reformed Church, Taxes, Insurance |
1858-1873 | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 8 | Deeds, Bonds, Indentures (mostly drafts), Women's Hospital |
1811-1829 | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 9 | Documents pertaining to Trinity Cemetery, the Women's Hospital, and Business in Paris.
Also, Correspondence and Receipts |
Circa 1860-1870 | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 10 | Correspondence |
1851-1857 | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 11 | Account with William Foey (1840's), Notes on the Village of Hospitals Idea (1870's) |
1840's-1870's | |
Box: 6(A) | Folder : 12 | Receipts for Gerard Beekman's House at Broadway and Spring St |
1832 | |
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Box 6(B), James W. Beekman, Real Estate and Business Papers, 1748-1857
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 6(B) | Folder : 13 | Receipts for Gerard Beekman's House at Broadway and Spring St |
1832 | |
Box: 6(B) | Folder : 14 | Real Estate and Business Papers, Property Deeds (bulk 1795-1805), East River Bank
Checkbook (1857) |
1795-1857 | |
Box: 6(B) | Folder : 15 | Real Estate and Business Papers, Deeds, Leases |
1748-1806 | |
Box: 6(B) | Folder : 16 | Real Estate and Business Papers, Deeds |
1787-1831 | |
Box: 6(B) | Folder : 17 | Real Estate and Business Papers, Deeds |
1803-1818 | |
Box: 6(B) | Folder : 18 | Account Books, Bank Books |
1825-1893 | |
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Box 7(A)- Part 1, 1804-1842
Scope and ContentsSee White's Guide: pages 78-82. This box is divided into two boxes, 7(A) Parts 1-2 and 7(B). Material from 7(B) is not properly cataloged in White's guide. Overall, receipts are roughly chronological by folder but are not organized chronologically in White's guide. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 1 | Receipts |
1804-1805 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 2 | Receipts |
1811-1813 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 3 | Receipts |
1828-1829 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 4 | Receipts, Rent, Tuition, etc. |
1827-1830 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 5 | Receipts |
1830-1831 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 6 | Receipts |
1831-32 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 7 | Receipts |
1832-1833 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 8 | Receipts |
1833-34 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 9 | Receipts |
1835-1837 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 10 | Receipts |
1839-1840 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 11 | Receipts |
1841 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 1 | Folder : 12 | Receipts |
1842 | |
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Box 7(A)- Part 2, Household Receipts for James W Beekman and Others, 1843-1865
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 2 | Folder : 13 | Receipts |
1843-1844 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 2 | Folder : 14 | Receipts |
1845-46 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 2 | Folder : 15 | Receipts |
1847-1848 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 2 | Folder : 16 | Receipts |
1849-1850 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 2 | Folder : 17 | Receipts |
1851 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 2 | Folder : 18 | Receipts |
1852 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 2 | Folder : 19 | Receipts |
1854 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 2 | Folder : 20 | Receipts (Europe) |
1854-1855 | |
Box: 7(A)- Part 2 | Folder : 21 | Receipts |
1865 | |
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Box 7(B), Household Receipts for James W Beekman and Others, 1857-1871
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 7(B) | Folder : 22 | Receipts |
1865 | |
Box: 7(B) | Folder : 23 | Receipts |
1865-1869 | |
Box: 7(B) | Folder : 24 | Receipts |
1870 Jan- 1870 June | |
Box: 7(B) | Folder : 25 | Receipts |
1870 June- 1870 Dec | |
Box: 7(B) | Folder : 26 | Receipts |
1871 | |
Box: 7(B) | Folder : 27 | Receipts |
1857-1858 | |
Box: 7(B) | Folder : 28 | |||
Box: 7(B) | Folder : 28 | Misc Letters |
1857-1858 | |
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Box 8(A), James W. Beekman, Receipts, Contracts, Correspondence, 1850-1873
Scope and ContentsSee White's guide: Pages 83-90. The content of boxes 8(A) and 8(B) is all cataloged in White's guide, though not divided into the two boxes in his notes. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 8(A) | Folder : 1 | Receipts |
1871-1872 | |
Box: 8(A) | Folder : 2 | Receipts |
1875 | |
Box: 8(A) | Folder : 3 | Contracts, Bonds, and Mortgages Regarding Houses Being Constructed on 51st Street |
1862-1865 | |
Box: 8(A) | Folder : 4 | Contracts re Construction Work |
1863-1871 | |
Box: 8(A) | Folder : 5 | Contract Records of Imports |
Circa 1863-1874 | |
Box: 8(A) | Folder : 6 | Contracts, Correspondence, Tax Assessments, Newspaper Clippings |
Circa 1845-1877 | |
Box: 8(A) | Folder : 7 | Correspondence, Contracts, Estate Income, Leases |
1845-18771862-1877 | |
Box: 8(A) | Folder : 8 | Cancelled Checks and Drafts |
1872-1873 | |
Box: 8(A) | Folder : 9 | James W. Beekman and Gerard Beekman, Correspondence Received from E.D. Howland |
1872-1873 | |
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Box 8(B), James W. Beekman, 1794-1908
Scope and ContentsSee also the few remaining documents concerning the Beekman/Dunscomb/Chalmers/Burr case in Box 11. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 10 | Cancelled Checks, Gerard Beekman |
1816-1829, 1833 | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 11 | Checks of Gerard Beekman and James Beekman |
1829-1870 | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 12 | James W. Beekman vs Samuel W. Dunscomb and Andrew Chalmers, Execs of Aaron M. Burr
Estate
Scope and ContentsAlso see Box 9 folders 3, 5,6 for the Dunscomb Case. |
1857-1870 | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 13 | James W. Beekman vs Samuel W. Dunscomb and Andrew Chalmers, Execs of Aaron M. Burr
Estate |
1857-1869 | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 14 | James W. Beekman vs Samuel W. Dunscomb and Andrew Chalmers, Execs of Aaron M. Burr
Estate |
1858-1870 | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 15 | James W. Beekman vs Samuel W. Dunscomb and Andrew Chalmers, Execs of Aaron M. Burr
Estate |
1858-1867 | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 16 | Deeds and Mortgages, Survey of Property |
1865-1866, 1853 | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 17 | Mortgage, Miscellaneous Realty Papers, Dower |
1793-1843 | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 18 | Legal Papers, Lease, Bonds, Mortgages, Deed |
1794-1840 | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 19 | Receipts, Estimates, Probate Material, Indenture |
1840's - 1870's | |
Box: 8(B) | Folder : 20 | Newspaper Clippings, Draft of Article by James W. Beekman on Family History
Scope and ContentsThis folder missing altogether from White's summary volumes |
1897-1908 | |
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Box 9, James W. Beekman, Real Estate, 1810-1880
Scope and ContentsSee White's guide: pages 92-94. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 1 | Leases and Indentures |
1866-1879 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 2 | Leases and Indentures |
1866-1879 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 3 | Letters of A.M. Burr to James W. Beekman
Scope and ContentsBulk pertaining to the Dunscomb Case. See box 8(B) folders 12-15. |
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Box: 9 | Folder : 4 | Real Estate Papers (Leases, Mortgages, Conveyances) |
1862-1873 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 5 | Real Estate Papers (Properties Sold to S.W. Dunscomb, Lexington Ave)
Scope and ContentsAlso see Box 8(B) folders 12-15, Box 9 folder 3 and 5, for the Dunscomb Case. |
1868 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 6 | Leases and Legal Papers Relating to Dunscomb Case
Scope and ContentsAlso see box 8(B) folders 12-15 for the Dunscomb Case |
1857-1869 | |
Box: 9 | Folder : 7 | Abstract of Title of Michael J. Newman to Premises on NW Corner of Lex and 62nd |
1810-1869 | |
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Box 10, James W. Beekman, 1850-1853
Scope and ContentsSee White's Guide: pages 95-99. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 10 | Folder : 1 | James W. Beekman, Speech Delivered in Senate regarding Union College Scandal |
1852 Feb 28 | |
Box: 10 | Folder : 2 | Act to Divide 19th Ward, Jones Wood Park (and supporting materials: bills, interviews,
correspondence, maps, legal history), One Letter on Union College |
1853 | |
Box: 10 | Folder : 3 | Correspondence to Senator James W. Beekman at Albany
Scope and ContentsItemized in detail in White's guide. Organized roughly chronologically. |
1850 | |
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Box 11, Misc Papers of James W. Beekman, 1750-1894
Scope and ContentsSee White's notes: pages 100-105. Some of these folders also contain documents from the Milledoler family as well as the Beekman/Dunscomb/Chalmers/Burr case (the bulk of which can be found in box 8(B)). Each of the folders contains a wide range of documents from legal papers to poetry to school report cards. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 1 | Remedies and Recipes, Extracts of Will of Harmanus Rutgers, Maps of Lots, Stock in
Brunswick Turnpike, Real Estate Docs, Boudinot and Milledoler Papers, Correspondence |
1750-1808 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 2 | Letters, Baron von Hoffman Case, Medical Disability Certificate for Gereard Beekman,
War of 1812, Real Estate, Death Notices for Gerard and Catherine's Children, Quotations,
Milledoler Property |
1812-1828 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 3 | Letters, Recipes, Personal Notes, Correspondence |
1830-1840 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 4 | Correspondence, Insurance Documentation, Gubernatorial Resolutions |
1840-1850 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 5 | Assessments, Letters, Notes on New York Hospitals, Petitions, Introductions, Club
Memberships |
1850-1860 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 6 | Letters, Correspondence, Documents relating to Women's Hospital, NY Hospital, Inebriate
Asylum, Century Club, Receipts, Introductions. Also, Circular of Working Women's Protective
Union |
1860-1870 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 7 | Letters, Recipes for Medical Prescriptions, Notes on Adjusting a Lightning Rod. Letter
in French concerning Bellerive. Legal Papers. Late 18th Century to 1894 (bulk 1870-1894) |
Circa 1800-1900 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 8 | Circulars, Documents Relating to Women's Hospital, School Papers, Speeches, Medical
Remedies |
1850, 1867-68 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 9 | Gerard Beekman's Bills (mostly hotel) from Paris, Rome, Wiesbaden |
1864-1865 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 10 | Bank Deposits, List of Expenditures and Incomes, Construction Accounts |
1868-69 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 11 | Quotations, Poetry, Report Cards, Sermons |
1784-1830, undated | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 12 | List of Jewelry, Travel Letters, Sermons, Invitations, Many Undated |
Circa 1830 | |
Box: 11 | Folder : 13 | Two Photographs, Maps, Will of A.W. Beekman, Property Deeds, Newspaper Clippings,
Indentures, Introductions |
1821-1883 | |
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Box 12, Genealogy and Property, 1719-1923
Scope and ContentsSee White's guide: pages 105-109. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 12 | Folder : 1 | Petition in Chancery 1836 re Division of Property Among Heirs of William Beekman,
Other Papers re Petition including Commissioner's Reports |
1836 | |
Box: 12 | Folder : 2 | Genealogy, Family History, 5 Mile Stone Farm, Property Deeds, Indentures |
1767-1799, 1923 | |
Box: 12 | Folder : 3 | Genealogy, Family History, 5 Mile Stone Farm, Correspondence |
1832, undated | |
Box: 12 | Folder : 4 | Genealogy, 5 Mile Stone Farm, Newspaper Clippings |
1760-1839, 1903-1916 | |
Box: 12 | Folder : 5 | Genealogy (particularly European Beekmans), 5 Mile Stone Farm, Includes Some Photostat
Copies |
1719, Undated | |
Box: 12 | Folder : 6 | Indentures |
1751-1780 | |
Box: 12 | Folder : 7 | Agreements, Deed of Partition, Bill of Sale
Scope and ContentsBill of Sale's description missing from White's Guide |
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Box: 12 | Folder : 8 | Leaves of Record of Family of William Beekman (in Dutch with translation)
Scope and ContentsLeaves of Record missing from White's guide. |
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Box 13(A), James Beekman, 1750-1759
Scope and ContentsSee White's guide: pages 110-116. White's description is of one box but later was divided into two (13(A-B)). Items are arranged largely chronologically but not corresponding to White's guide directly. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 13(A) | Folder : 1 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1750-1753 | |
Box: 13(A) | Folder : 2 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1754-1755 | |
Box: 13(A) | Folder : 3 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1756 | |
Box: 13(A) | Folder : 4 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1757 | |
Box: 13(A) | Folder : 5 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1757 | |
Box: 13(A) | Folder : 6 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1758 | |
Box: 13(A) | Folder : 7 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1758-59 | |
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Box 13(B), James Beekman, 1759-1760
Scope and ContentsFolders 8-9 in this box are describes by White under folder #4 in the guide. Similarly, folder 10 of this box is described as folder #5 in White's guide. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 13(B) | Folder : 8 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1759 | |
Box: 13(B) | Folder : 9 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1759 | |
Box: 13(B) | Folder : 10 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1760 | |
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Box 14(A), James Beekman, 1760-1766
Scope and ContentsFor 14(A-B) see White's guide: pages 117-125. Folders have been reorganized and no longer correspond to the folders detailed in White's guide but many are present. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 14(A) | Folder : 1 | James Beekman, European Accounts and Correspondence, Pertaining Largely to London
Firm Pomeroys and Hodgkin |
1760 | |
Box: 14(A) | Folder : 2 | James Beekman, European Accounts and Correspondence, Pertaining Largely to London
Firm Pomeroys and Hodgkin |
1761 | |
Box: 14(A) | Folder : 3 | James Beekman, European Accounts and Correspondence, Pertaining Largely to London
Firm Pomeroys and Hodgkin |
1762 | |
Box: 14(A) | Folder : 4 | James Beekman, European Accounts and Correspondence, Pertaining Largely to London
Firm Pomeroys and Hodgkin |
1763 | |
Box: 14(A) | Folder : 5 | James Beekman, European Accounts and Correspondence, Pertaining Largely to London
Firm Pomeroys and Hodgkin |
1764 | |
Box: 14(A) | Folder : 6 | James Beekman, European Accounts and Correspondence, Pertaining Largely to London
Firm Pomeroys and Hodgkin |
1764 | |
Box: 14(A) | Folder : 7 | James Beekman, European Accounts and Correspondence, Pertaining Largely to London
Firm Pomeroys and Hodgkin |
1765 | |
Box: 14(A) | Folder : 8 | James Beekman, European Accounts and Correspondence, Pertaining Largely to London
Firm Pomeroys and Hodgkin |
1766 | |
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Box 14(B), James Beekman, 1767-1775, undated
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 14(B) | Folder : 9 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1767 | |
Box: 14(B) | Folder : 10 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1768 | |
Box: 14(B) | Folder : 11 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1769 | |
Box: 14(B) | Folder : 12 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1770 | |
Box: 14(B) | Folder : 13 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1771 | |
Box: 14(B) | Folder : 14 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1772 | |
Box: 14(B) | Folder : 15 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1773 | |
Box: 14(B) | Folder : 16 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1774 | |
Box: 14(B) | Folder : 17 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1775 | |
Box: 14(B) | Folder : 18 | James Beekman, Undated Papers |
undated | |
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Box 15(A), James Beekman, Business Papers, 1760-1785
Scope and ContentsFor 15(A-B) see White's guide: pages 126-141. Very detailed notes but, because of post-White reorganization, does not always line up with folders. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 1 | James Beekman, European Business Correspondence EMPTY |
1776-1781 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 2 | James Beekman, European Business Correspondence |
1782 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 3 | James Beekman, European Business Correspondence |
1783 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 4 | James Beekman, European Business Correspondence |
1784 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 5 | James Beekman, European Business Correspondence |
1785 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 6 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence, Accounts, Indentures |
1760-1762 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 7 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence, Accounts, Indentures |
1763-1765 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 8 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence, Accounts, Indentures |
1766-1769 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 9 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence, Accounts, Indentures |
1770 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 10 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence, Accounts, Indentures |
1771 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 11 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence, Accounts, Indentures |
1772 | |
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Box 15(B), James Beekman, Business Papers, 1773-1814
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 12 | James Beekman, Local Invoices, Receipts, Agreements, Lists of Bonds, Lake Champlain
Property |
1773 | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 13 | James Beekman, Local Invoices, Accounts, Receipts, Legal Papers |
1774-1776 | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 14 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence, Invoices, Accounts, Receipts, Extract of Will
of Gerard W. Beekman |
1777-1781 | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 15 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence (Two from Mary Beekman) |
1782 | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 16 | James Beekman, Local Accounts, Receipts |
1783 | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 17 | James Beekman, Local Accounts, Receipts, Lake Champlain Property |
1784 | |
Box: 15(A) | Folder : 18 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence, Accounts, Receipts |
1785 | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 19 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence, Accounts, Receipts |
1787 | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 20 | James Beekman, Local Accounts, Receipts |
1792 | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 21 | James Beekman, Local Maps and Property Documents, Correspondence, Accounts, Receipts |
1796-1799 | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 22 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence and Survey of Property |
1804-1814 | |
Box: 15(B) | Folder : 23 | James Beekman, Local Correspondence, Business Papers, French Account and Letters (in
French) |
1791-1799 | |
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Box 16(A), William Beekman Jr. (Beekmantown), 1735-1789
Scope and ContentsFor boxes 16(A-B) see White's guide: pages 232-251. Organized largely chronologically in White's notes but split into two boxes after the fact. Much of the content pertains to Beekmantown. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 16(A) | Folder : 1 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Wills and Receipts belonging to Robert
Gregg (bulk) |
1746-1759 | |
Box: 16(A) | Folder : 2 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Probate Materials |
1760-1769 | |
Box: 16(A) | Folder : 3 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Estate Inventories, Bonds, Wawayanda
Property |
1770-1771 | |
Box: 16(A) | Folder : 4 | William Beekman Jr. and Abraham Beekman, Accounts, Correspondence, Estate Division,
Household Receipts |
1772-1773 | |
Box: 16(A) | Folder : 5 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Bonds |
1774-1775 | |
Box: 16(A) | Folder : 6 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Bound Account book with Gerard Beekman |
1776-1784 | |
Box: 16(A) | Folder : 7 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Survey of Beekmantown |
1735-17861785-1786 | |
Box: 16(A) | Folder : 8 | William Beekman Jr. and Abraham Beekman, Accounts, Correspondence, Document Pertaining
to Education of Slave |
1787-1788 | |
Box: 16(A) | Folder : 9 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Bill of Sale for Slave (made by Elizabeth
Rutgers) |
1789 | |
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Box 16(B), William Beekman Jr. (Beekmantown), 1790-1828
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 16(B) | Folder : 10 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Receipts, NH Border, Egbert Benson
Correspondence |
1790 | |
Box: 16(B) | Folder : 11 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Receipts, Property |
1791-1792 | |
Box: 16(B) | Folder : 12 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Receipts, Aaron Burr Letter, Beekmantown |
1793-1794 | |
Box: 16(B) | Folder : 13 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Receipts, Rental Agreements, Elizabeth
Rutgers Rent Execution and Related Documents |
1795 | |
Box: 16(B) | Folder : 14 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Estate, Receipts, Dividends of William
Beekman Estate, Chancery Court, Catherine Rawling and Sarah Keteltas Inheritance |
1796-1798 | |
Box: 16(B) | Folder : 15 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Estate Papers, Receipts, Dividends
of William Beekman Estate, Sarah Fish Accounts |
1799 | |
Box: 16(B) | Folder : 16 | William Beekman Jr., Accounts, Correspondence, Receipts, City Maintenance, William
Beekman Jr Death and Related Documents |
Circa 1800's | |
Box: 16(B) | Folder : 17 | Receipts, Rent |
1800-1828 | |
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Box 17(A), William Beekman, 1695-1779
Scope and ContentsSee White's guide, Volume 1, pages 176-201. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 17(A) | Folder : 1 | William Beekman, Gerard Beekman, Accounts, Indentures, Sailing Materials, Bonds, Many
Materials Pertaining to Insolvency |
1695-1745 | |
Box: 17(A) | Folder : 2 | William Beekman and Seymour Family, Accounts and Correspondence Pertaining Largely
to Business in Jamaica
File PlanFor related materials, see Box 31(A), Folder 3, and Box 16, Folder 7. |
1750-1759 | |
Box: 17(A) | Folder : 3 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Bills of Exchange, Including Information on the
Schooners "William" and "Friendship" |
1760-1765 | |
Box: 17(A) | Folder : 4 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts |
1766-1767 | |
Box: 17(A) | Folder : 5 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Bonds |
1768-1769 | |
Box: 17(A) | Folder : 6 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Estate Inventory, Rents |
1770-1771 | |
Box: 17(A) | Folder : 7 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Including Joint Bond List of Magdalen, Catherine,
and Mary Beekman |
1772-1773 | |
Box: 17(A) | Folder : 8 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence, Indentures |
1774-1776 | |
Box: 17(A) | Folder : 9 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts |
1777-1778 | |
Box: 17(A) | Folder : 10 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts |
1779 | |
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Box 17(B), William Beekman, 1780-1783
Scope and ContentsSee White's guide, Volume 1, pages 176-201. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 17(B) | Folder : 11 | William Beekman, Accounts |
Circa 1780 | |
Box: 17(B) | Folder : 12 | William Beekman and Family, Accounts, Tax Receipts
Scope and ContentsMany accounts pertain to Mary, Catherine, and Magdelaine Beekman. |
1781 | |
Box: 17(B) | Folder : 13 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Hampden Hall
Scope and ContentsFor more on Hampden Hall, see Box 18, Folder 2. |
1782 | |
Box: 17(B) | Folder : 14 | William Beekman and Family, Correspondence, Accounts, Magdalaine and Catherine and
Mary Beekman Rental Execution
File PlanItems described for Folder 14 in White's guide have been divided into boxes 14 & 15. |
1783 | |
Box: 17(B) | Folder : 15 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Bonds and Mortgages due Magdalaine and Catherine
and Mary Beekman |
1783 | |
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Box 18, William Beekman, 1784-1788
Scope and ContentsDescribed in White's guide Volume 1, pages 202 to 210. In every folder there are misc. receipts and some documentation about purchasing, buying or renting property. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 18 | Folder : 1 | William Beekman and Family, Accounts, Correspondence, Local Senate-Assembly Vote in
Outward of NYC |
1784 | |
Box: 18 | Folder : 2 | William Beekman and Family, Accounts, Correspondence, Hampden Hall Documents, Catherine-Mary-Magdalen
Accounts, Catherine Beekman Slave Sale
Scope and ContentsFor more on Hampden Hall real estate, see Box 17(B), Folder 13. |
1785 | |
Box: 18 | Folder : 3 | William Beekman and Family, Accounts, Correspondence |
1786 | |
Box: 18 | Folder : 4 | William Beekman and Family, Accounts, Correspondence, Bond list for Catherine-Mary-Magdalen,
Lots of Wawayanda Patent |
1787 | |
Box: 18 | Folder : 5 | William Beekman and Family, Accounts, Correspondence, Property |
1788 | |
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Box 19, William Beekman, 1789-1792
Scope and ContentsFor more detail, see White's guide, Volume 1, Pages 211-216. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 19 | Folder : 1 | William Beekman, Accounts, Correspondence |
1789 | |
Box: 19 | Folder : 2 | William Beekman, Accounts, Correspondence |
1790 | |
Box: 19 | Folder : 3 | William Beekman, Accounts, Correspondence |
1791 | |
Box: 19 | Folder : 4 | William Beekman, Accounts, Correspondence |
1792 | |
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Box 20, William Beekman, 1793-1798
Scope and ContentsFor additional information, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 217-220. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 20 | Folder : 1 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, and Correspondence pertaining primarily to the
disputed will of Mary Beekman. |
1793-1794 | |
Box: 20 | Folder : 2 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts and Correspondence pertaining largely to Mary
Beekman's Estate and Wawayanda Patent.
Scope and ContentsIncludes Chancery Court record for Mary Beekman's property case, 1794. |
1794 | |
Box: 20 | Folder : 3 | William Beekman, Family Accounts, Receipts and Correspondence relating largely to
the Mary Beekman Estate dispute |
1795 | |
Box: 20 | Folder : 4 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence, Estate of William Beekman, Deceased |
1796 | |
Box: 20 | Folder : 5 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence |
1797 | |
Box: 20 | Folder : 6 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence |
1798 | |
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Box 21, William Beekman & Beekmantown Patent, 1799-1809
Scope and ContentsFor more detail, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 221-231. Every folder in this box is mostly composed of correspondence and requests for land purchase in the Plattsburgh(Beekmantown) patent. For more Beekmantown (Plattsburgh, NY) see Box 30(A) Folders 2, 6, and Box 34(A) Folders 1-8. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 21 | Folder : 1 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, and Correspondence relating largely to Beekmantown
Patent |
1799 | |
Box: 21 | Folder : 2 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence, Wawayanda Property, Copy of Will
of Hannah Courtney, Estate of William Beekman |
1800 | |
Box: 21 | Folder : 3 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence, William Beekman Estate |
1801 | |
Box: 21 | Folder : 4 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence |
1802 | |
Box: 21 | Folder : 5 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence |
1803 | |
Box: 21 | Folder : 6 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence |
1804 | |
Box: 21 | Folder : 7 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence, James Badgley Account Book Tracking
Multiple Beekman Family Members' Accounts |
1805 | |
Box: 21 | Folder : 8 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence |
1806 | |
Box: 21 | Folder : 9 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence |
1807 | |
Box: 21 | Folder : 10 | William Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Correspondence, Itemized List of 23 Lots of Beekmantown
(Acreage) |
1808-1809 | |
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Box 22, William Beekman and Cornelia Beekman Walton, 1722-1791
Scope and ContentsFor more detail, see White's guide, Volume 1, pages 168-175. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 22 | Folder : 1 | William Beekman, Letters received regarding Cranbury accounts, referred to as "Cranberry
Letters" |
1764-1775 | |
Box: 22 | Folder : 2 | William Beekman, Bonds, Penal Bills, Letters of Administration, Indentures, and Correspondence,
pertaining largely to accounts in default |
1772-1791 | |
Box: 22 | Folder : 3 | William Beekman, Richmond Accounts |
1769-1789 | |
Box: 22 | Folder : 4 | Cornelia Beekman Walton, Bills and Receipts pertaining largely to her annuity |
1774-1789 | |
Box: 22 | Folder : 5 | Cornelia Beekman Walton, Correspondence regarding Property and Inheritance, Estate
Inventories, and Accounts |
1768-17901783-1786 | |
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Box 23, William Beekman, 1761-1820
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's guide, Volume 1, pages 166-167. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 23 | Folder : 1 | Property Deeds of Clear Everitt, Wife Magdalen Everitt, and Nephew Gerard Rutgers
in Dutchess County and Rhode Island |
1785 | |
Box: 23 | Folder : 2 | Documents Regarding the Contested Will of Mary Beekman and Robert Rutger's Inheritance |
1784-1820 | |
Box: 23 | Folder : 3 | Accounts, Legal Documents, and Probate Material for Tolmie and Barnes Families
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsItems are fragile and in poor condition. |
1763-1804 | |
Box: 23 | Folder : 4 | William Beekman, Bills and Receipts |
1770-1785 | |
Box: 23 | Folder : 5 | Accounts of Catherine Beekman, Mary Beekman, and William Beekman |
1783-1787 | |
Box: 23 | Folder : 6 | William Beekman, Daybooks |
1761-1769, 1783, 1788 | |
Box: 23 | Folder : 7 | William Beekman, Accounts, Correspondence, and Estate Settlement Pertaining largely
to the Tolmie Family
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsMaterials are fragile and in poor condition. |
1786-1808 | |
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Box 24(A), William Beekman & James Beekman, Jr., 1696-1810
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 257-262. The Complaint of James Beekman, Jr. (1834) regarding the estate of his wife Lydia Beekman, and the Beekman Coat of Arms have been moved to oversized materials, Folder 2. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 1 | William Beekman, Bonds and Mortgages |
1766-1772 | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 2 | William Beekman and the Rebuilding of Princeton's Nassau Hall |
1802-1807 | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 3 | Elizabeth Rutgers and Rutgers Family, Accounts and Receipts |
1783-1790 | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 4 | Correspondence Pertaining to the Wawayanda Patent |
1766-1784 | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 5 | William Beekman and Abraham Beekman, Bills and Receipts pertaining to Accounts in
New Jersey |
1775-1783 | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 6 | Nicholas Bayard, Supreme Court Judgments, Accounts, and Mortgages pertaining largely
to insolvency |
1789-1792 | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 7 | William Beekman, Houses on Dock and Duke Street |
1784-1790 | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 8 | Deeds of Partition and Surveys of the Drowned Lands, a portion of the Wawayanda Patent |
1772-1806 | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 9 | Bond, Correspondence, Mortgage, and Estate Settlement for Michael Moore and his wife,
for 100 Acres in Hackensack, New Jersey |
1774-1805 | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 10 | James Beekman, Jr. Overseas Business Papers |
1800-1810 | |
Box: 24(A) | Folder : 11 | Various DeLancey Accounts |
1696-1773 | |
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Box 24(B), William Beekman & Samuel Beekman, 1755-1815
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 257-262 (Note: the account book described as being in Folder 16 has been moved to oversized materials). |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 24(B) | Folder : 12 | Ship Log from Ship Levant |
1755 | |
Box: 24(B) | Folder : 13 | Samuel Beekman, Indentures and Accounts with Sister Cornelia Beekman |
1769-18901804-1815 | |
Box: 24(B) | Folder : 14 | William Beekman and Family, Bills and Receipts |
1761-1767 | |
Box: 24(B) | Folder : 15 | Elizabeth Rutgers, Elizabeth Wainwright, and Family, Bills and Receipts |
1765-1777 | |
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Box 25(A), James W. Beekman, 1838-1851
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 263-299. Folders 4-9 contain correspondence mostly concerning NY State Legislature. Archive Page noting that Survey of Union cemetery and "the Beekman Crest" moved to Oversize Box, Folder 4. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 25(A) | Folder : 1 | American Colonization Society, Book of Resolutions of All State Legislatures "In Favor"
of ACS |
Circa 1830s | |
Box: 25(A) | Folder : 2 | Public School Quizzes |
1850 | |
Box: 25(A) | Folder : 3 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence, Invitations, Calling Cards, and Other Ephemera Pertaining
Largely to Travel (in French and German), Abstract of Will of William Beekman, Book
of Exchange Rates |
1838-1839 | |
Box: 25(A) | Folder : 4 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Pertaining Primarily to Congressional Business |
1850 | |
Box: 25(A) | Folder : 5 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Pertaining Primarily to Congressional Business, Hamilton
Fish Reelection, Booklet on Prussian Military Structure |
January 1851 | |
Box: 25(A) | Folder : 6 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Pertaining Primarily to Congressional Business, Juvenile
Asylum, Hamilton Fish Reelection |
February 2-14, 1851 | |
Box: 25(A) | Folder : 7 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Pertaining Primarily to Congressional Business, Hamilton
Fish Reelection |
February 15-28, 1851 | |
Box: 25(A) | Folder : 8 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Pertaining Primarily to Congressional Business |
March 1-15, 1851 | |
Box: 25(A) | Folder : 9 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Pertaining Primarily to Congressional Business, Copy
of Supplement to NJ Registry Act (1 Document) |
March 1 to April 15, 1851 | |
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Box 25(B), James W. Beekman, 1849-1876
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 25(B) | Folder : 10 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Pertaining Primarily to Congressional Business |
April 1 to June 30, 1851 | |
Box: 25(B) | Folder : 11 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence Pertaining Primarily to Congressional Business |
July 1 to December 31, 1851 | |
Box: 25(B) | Folder : 12 | James W. Beekman and the Legislature, including Maxwell Correspondence, Jones Woods
Park Petition, and Miscellaneous Legal Materials |
February 1851 to March 1851 | |
Box: 25(B) | Folder : 13 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence, Circulars |
1852 | |
Box: 25(B) | Folder : 14 | James W. Beekman, Cancelled Checks, Bills, and Other Accounts
Scope and ContentsMaterials listed in Folder 14 are not detailed in White's guide. |
1865-1876 | |
Box: 25(B) | Folder : 15 | Minutes of the Select Committee to Investigate Abuses in Opening Streets in City of
New York |
1849 | |
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Box 26(A), James W. Beekman, 1845-1900
Scope and ContentsFor additional detail, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 320-322. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 26(A) | Folder : 1 | Accounts and Miscellaneous Correspondence |
1845-1857 | |
Box: 26(A) | Folder : 2 | James W. Beekman, Political Petitions and Circulars |
1850-1863 | |
Box: 26(A) | Folder : 3 | Political Documents Regarding Schools, Police, Asylums, and Churches |
1850-1851 | |
Box: 26(A) | Folder : 4 | James W. Beekman, Real Estate Documents |
1850-1900 | |
Box: 26(A) | Folder : 5 | James W. Beekman and Gerard Beekman, Real Estate Documents and Correspondence |
1896-1899 | |
Box: 26(A) | Folder : 6 | James W. Beekman and Gerard Beekman, Real Estate Documents and Correspondence |
1898-1899 | |
Box: 26(A) | Folder : 7 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence, Real Estate Documents, and Accounts |
1898-1900 | |
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Box 26(B). James W. Beekman, 1896-1900
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 26(B) | Folder : 8 | James W. Beekman, Real Estate Documents and Related Correspondence |
1896-1900 | |
Box: 26(B) | Folder : 9 | James W. Beekman, Real Estate Documents, Membership in Sons of the Revolution |
1898-1899 | |
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Box 27, William Beekman & James Beekman, 1719-1837
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 304-305 (Note: descriptions do not directly correspond to folder listings in the guide). |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 1 | Norman Tolmie, Receipt Book |
1765-1785 | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 2 | John Beekman, Accounts
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsBound Volume |
1837 | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 3 | William Beekman, Account Book |
1796-1808 | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 4 | Receipt Book of Principle of Interest as Accounts of Rents Belonging to William Beekman |
1767-1773 | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 5 | Beekman Family Cash Book |
1836 | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 6 | James Beekman, Jr., Letterbook |
1800 | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 7 | Account Books, including Correspondence from Alexander Hamilton Regarding Richmond
Estate Division |
1794-1797 | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 8 | Mary Beekman, Estate Papers |
1793-1794 | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 9 | Miscellaneous Materials and Ephemera, Including "Items 16 and 17," Aldrich Drawing
Entitled "The Cliffs," and Peter Beekman's Coat of Arms |
Undated | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 10 | Field Book on Wawayanda Patent, Account Books, Cruise Ship Pamphlets |
1719-1804, undated | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 11 | James Beekman, Mathematical Tables, Account Book |
Undated | |
Box: 27 | Folder : 12 | List of Library of William Beekman |
1794 | |
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Box 28(A), Gerard Beekman, 1896-1922
Scope and ContentsFor more detail, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 323-325. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 28(A) | Folder : 1 | William Beekman and Gerard Beekman, Correspondence, Article Clippings, Real Estate
and Church Related Documents |
1878-1902 | |
Box: 28(A) | Folder : 2 | Legal Documents, Correspondence, Documents Regarding the Collegiate Dutch Church,
Patents
Scope and ContentsIncludes request from Abraham Van Santvoord for a Century Club Recommendation. |
1896-1899 | |
Box: 28(A) | Folder : 3 | Clippings, Correspondence, Invitations, Pamphlets, Church Expenses, Materials Pertaining
to Boer War |
1900-1901 | |
Box: 28(A) | Folder : 4 | Correspondence and Other Miscellaneous Materials Pertaining to the Boer War, Cruise
Ships, and Horse Shows |
1902 | |
Box: 28(A) | Folder : 5 | Correspondence and Other Miscellaneous Material |
1903 | |
Box: 28(A) | Folder : 6 | Newspaper Clippings, Correspondence, Church Budget, and Other Material Pertaining
to the Presbyterian Hospital and New York Juvenile Asylum |
1904-1905 | |
Box: 28(A) | Folder : 7 | Municipal Correspondence, Construction Receipts, Petitions |
1906-1922 | |
Box: 28(A) | Folder : 8 | Newspaper Clippings, Promotional Information on Mission Work, Legal Notes |
Undated, circa 1890s-1900s | |
Box: 28(A) | Folder : 9 | Church and Political Ephemera, Including Pamphlets and Business Cards |
Circa 1878-1900s | |
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Box 28(B), Gerard Beekman, 1892-1904
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 28(B) | Folder : 10 | Correspondence, Information on Cruise Ships, Miscellaneous Clippings |
1897-1903 | |
Box: 28(B) | Folder : 11 | Legal Documents, Ephemera Pertaining Largely to the Dutch Reformed Church |
1892-1904 | |
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Box 29, Gerard Beekman, 1867-1913
Scope and ContentsFor additional information, see White's Guide, Volume 2, pages 326-327. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 29 | Folder : 1 | Papers Regarding the Yacht "Mirth II," Including Plans, Blueprints, Social Invitations,
Newspaper Clippings, and Materials Pertaining to the New York Yacht Club |
1899-1913 | |
Box: 29 | Folder : 2 | Drawings and Plans for "The Cliffs" in Oyster Bay |
1899-1902 | |
Box: 29 | Folder : 3 | Drawings and Plans for "The Cliffs" |
1899-1908 | |
Box: 29 | Folder : 4 | Information Pertaining to Gerard Beekman's Patents, Including Drawings, Correspondence,
and Legal Documents |
1896-1902 | |
Box: 29 | Folder : 5 | Patents, Drawings, Correspondence, Legal Documents |
1898-1900 | |
Box: 29 | Folder : 6 | Columbia University, Trustee and Commencement Ephemera |
1897-1905 | |
Box: 29 | Folder : 7 | Columbia University, Correspondence, Trustee, and Commencement Ephemera |
1867-1913 | |
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Box 30(A), James W. Beekman, 1839-1859
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's Guide, Volume 2, pages 300-301 (Note: some material in the guide, particularly bound volumes, is not designated by folder and has been relocated to Box 30(B)). For more on Beekmantown (folders 2, 6) see Box 21 Folders 1-10, and Box 34(A) Folder 2. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 30(A) | Folder : 1 | Invitations to Washington's Birthday Celebration, Account of Fraud in Assessments
in NYC, Memo Book, Gerard Beekman's Notes on Professor Joy's Lectures |
1847-1848 | |
Box: 30(A) | Folder : 2 | Miscellaneous Accounts, Power of Attorney, Tax Assessments, Plan of Foundation for
51 St. House, Beekmantown Ephemera, James W. Beekman Income Assessment, Legal Documents |
1839-1849 | |
Box: 30(A) | Folder : 3 | Accounts, Taxes, Checks, French Accounts (In French) |
1850-1855 | |
Box: 30(A) | Folder : 4 | Accounts Pertaining to European Trip, Largely from France, Some from Italy |
1856 | |
Box: 30(A) | Folder : 5 | Accounts and Insurance Policy Material, Checks, Hand-Edited Copy of NY Senate Act
for Local Improvements |
1857-1859 | |
Box: 30(A) | Folder : 6 | Accounts, Family Purchases of Dry Goods, State Senate Papers, Map of Beekmantown Lot-holders |
1859 | |
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Box 30(B), James W. Beekman, 1833-1875
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 30(B) | Folder : 7 | Bills Paid, Including Grammar School Receipts |
1859-1860 | |
Box: 30(B) | Folder : 8 | Bills Paid, Including Accounts of Dutch Reformed Church |
1860 | |
Box: 30(B) | Folder : 9 | Passport |
1838 | |
Box: 30(B) | Folder : 10 | Expense Books |
1841-1846 | |
Box: 30(B) | Folder : 11 | Account Books of Accounts with Grocers, Butchers, Waiters, and Coachmen |
1859-1867 | |
Box: 30(B) | Folder : 12 | Bank and Account Books |
1833-1867 | |
Box: 30(B) | Folder : 13 | Letter Acknowledging James W. Beekman as a Trustee of Columbia College |
1875 | |
Box: 30(B) | Folder : 14 | List of Expenses |
1860-1867 | |
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Box 31(A), Gerard Beekman and William Beekman, 1722-1818
Scope and ContentsFor more detail, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 252-256 (Note: materials do not all directly correspond to folder listings in the guide as they were divided into three separate boxes). |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 31(A) | Folder : 1 | Gerard Beekman, Property and Indentures |
1722-1795 | |
Box: 31(A) | Folder : 2 | Deeds Pertaining to Beekmantown |
1799-1808 | |
Box: 31(A) | Folder : 3 | William Beekman, Correspondence and Bonds Related to Property and Estate Settlement |
1763-1813 | |
Box: 31(A) | Folder : 4 | William Beekman, Bonds, Leases, and Indentures |
1755-1796 | |
Box: 31(A) | Folder : 5 | William Beekman, Wrappings (Indentures) and Bills of Sale |
Undated | |
Box: 31(A) | Folder : 6 | William Beekman and Catherine Boudinot, Accounts and Estate Information, Chancery
Records, Bound Volumes Listing Stock Dividends |
1797-1818 | |
Box: 31(A) | Folder : 7 | William Beekman, Accounts and Estate Information
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsBound Volume |
1799 | |
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Box 31(B), William Beekman, 1744-1819
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 31(B) | Folder : 8 | Legal Documents Pertaining to the Wawayanda Patent and Family Property, Including
Indenture of Elizabeth Rutgers, 1791 |
1756-1805 | |
Box: 31(B) | Folder : 9 | Legal Documents, Indentures, Bills of Sale, Many Pertaining to the Water Lot |
1753-1795 | |
Box: 31(B) | Folder : 10 | Legal Documents, Releases |
1744-1819 | |
Box: 31(B) | Folder : 11 | Legal Documents, Deeds in Trust, Division of Troup's Farm |
1753-1812 | |
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Box 31(C), William Beekman and James Beekman, 1757-1822
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 31(C) | Folder : 12 | Legal Documents, Probate Materials of William Beekman, Deeds for Bayard, Coens, Livingston,
and Ludlow Families |
1757-1801 | |
Box: 31(C) | Folder : 13 | James Beekman and Jane Beekman, Account Books Pertaining to Sundry Accounts and Rent |
1796-1814 | |
Box: 31(C) | Folder : 14 | James Beekman, Account and Estate Information, Including Bound Volumes Pertaining
Largely to the Heirs of Beekman's Estate |
1804-1816 | |
Box: 31(C) | Folder : 15 | Descriptions of Household and Kitchen Furniture and Wearing Apparel |
Circa 1790s-1820s | |
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Box 32(A), James Beekman, 1786-1793
Scope and ContentsFor additional description, see White's guide, Volume 1, pages 142-159. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 32(A) | Folder : 1 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence Pertaining Largely to Business in Europe |
1885-1786 | |
Box: 32(A) | Folder : 2 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1787 | |
Box: 32(A) | Folder : 3 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1788 | |
Box: 32(A) | Folder : 4 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1789 | |
Box: 32(A) | Folder : 5 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1789 | |
Box: 32(A) | Folder : 6 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1790 | |
Box: 32(A) | Folder : 7 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1791 | |
Box: 32(A) | Folder : 8 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1793 | |
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Box 32(B), James Beekman, & Box 33, Beekman Family Property & Correspondence, 1713-1799
Scope and ContentsFor more on the "Drew Affair" (folder 11), see Box 34(A) Folders 1-8. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 32(B) | Folder : 9 | James Beekman, Accounts, Property, Receipts |
1794 | |
Box: 32(B) | Folder : 10 | James Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Chancery Court Expenses |
1795 | |
Box: 32(B) | Folder : 11 | James Beekman, Jr., Drew Affair
Scope and ContentsContains material described in the guide as being in Folder 13 |
1798-1799 | |
Box: 32(B) | Folder : 12 | James Beekman and Jane Keteltas, Accounts and Estate Lists, Book Containing the "History
of the World in Major Events Since its Creation in 4004 B.C." |
Undated | |
Box: 32(B) | Folder : 13 | James Beekman, Early Deeds Regarding the Wawayanda Patent, Miscellaneous Receipts |
1713-1818 | |
Box: 33 | Folder : 1 | Maps of Beekman Properties |
Circa 1750s | |
Box: 33 | Folder : 2 | Correspondence, Leases to Ernest Conrad and John B. Morrel
Scope and ContentsItems in this folder are not described in White's guide. |
1849, 1857 | |
Box: 33 | Folder : 3 | Envelopes and Wrappings for Letters |
Undated | |
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Box 34(A), James Beekman, 1800-1819
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's guide, Volume 1, pages 160-161 (Note: descriptions are mainly for international affairs and property, and are not organized in order). Beekmantown documents in Folder 2. See also Box 21 Folders 10-10, Box 30(A) Folders 2,6. "Drew Affair" in folders 1-8, and for the origins of the Drew Affair, see Box 32(B) Folder 11. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 1 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence |
1800 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 2 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, Receipts, "Drew Affair," Beekmantown |
1801 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 3 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, Receipts, "Drew Affair" |
1802 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 4 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, "Drew Affair" |
1803 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 5 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, "Drew Affair" |
1804 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 6 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, "Drew Affair" |
1805 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 7 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, "Drew Affair," James Beekman Estate Papers |
1806 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 8 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, "Drew Affair," Property Documents |
1807 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 9 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, Map of City Lots, James Beekman Estate
Property Valuation |
1808 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 10 | James Beekman, Accounts, Correspondence, Indentures, Receipts, Insurance, Carriage
Tax |
1810-1815 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 11 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, Receipts |
1816 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 12 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, Receipts, Clipping from the NY Daily Advertiser
dated 9/1/1817 |
1817 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 13 | James Beekman, Accounts, Receipts |
1818 | |
Box: 34(A) | Folder : 14 | James Beekman, Accounts and Correspondence, Property Papers, Receipts, 2 Blank Copies
of "Sea Officers' Widows' Charity" |
1819 | |
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Box 34(B), James Beekman, 1799-1839
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 34(B) | Folder : 15 | James Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, and Subscriptions |
1820-1829 | |
Box: 34(B) | Folder : 15A | James Beekman and Lydia Beekman, Correspondence Regarding Royal Navy Pension |
1820-1825 | |
Box: 34(B) | Folder : 16 | James Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, and Subscriptions |
1830 | |
Box: 34(B) | Folder : 17 | James Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, Subscriptions, and Documents Regarding Pension |
1831 | |
Box: 34(B) | Folder : 18 | James Beekman, Accounts, Receipts, and Subscriptions |
1832 | |
Box: 34(B) | Folder : 19 | James Beekman, Indentures and Agreements |
1827-1834 | |
Box: 34(B) | Folder : 20 | James Beekman, Property Information
Scope and ContentsDescription of contents listed in White's guide, Volume 1, page 164. |
1799-1801, 1837-1839 | |
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Box 35(A), Estate Papers, 1763-1839
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 306-310 (Note: includes description of materials pertaining to business and property, including shipping, mercantile accounts, and the Chancery Court). |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 35(A) | Folder : 1 | Cornelia Beekman Walton, Estate |
1763-1800 | |
Box: 35(A) | Folder : 2 | Gerard Beekman, Samuel Beekman, and James Beekman, Correspondence |
1803-1822 | |
Box: 35(A) | Folder : 3 | William Beekman, James Beekman, Receipts and Accounts |
1791-1819 | |
Box: 35(A) | Folder : 4 | Reverend Abraham Keteltas, Estate Papers |
1781-1802 | |
Box: 35(A) | Folder : 5 | Gerard Beekman, Accounts |
1768-1780 | |
Box: 35(A) | Folder : 6 | James Beekman, John Beekman, William Beekman, Samuel Beekman, Accounts, Letters, Receipts |
1782-1811 | |
Box: 35(A) | Folder : 7 | John Beekman, Accounts, Letters, Receipts |
1792-1798 | |
Box: 35(A) | Folder : 8 | Gerard Beekman and Reverend Abraham Keteltas, Estate Inventories, Statements of Rents
and Lots |
1793-1836 | |
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Box 35(B), Estate Papers, 1731-1812
Scope and ContentsFor description of materials, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 309-310. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 35(B) | Folder : 9 | William Beekman, Eighteenth-Century Deeds |
1731, 1785 | |
Box: 35(B) | Folder : 10 | James Beekman, John Beekman, Real Estate Papers |
1808-1812 | |
Box: 35(B) | Folder : 11 | Beekman Family, Estate and Account Book |
October 1795 | |
Box: 35(B) | Folder : 12 | William Beekman, Estate, Account Book |
1731-1802 | |
Box: 35(B) | Folder : 13 | Beekman Family, Estate Book |
1795-1806 | |
Box: 35(B) | Folder : 14 | William Beekman, Deceased October 8, 1795, Estate Book
Scope and ContentsDescription of contents in White's guide, Volume 2, P. 310. |
1803-1812 | |
Box: 35(B) | Folder : 15 | William Beekman, Uncle William Beekman, Estate Books and Negatives (Photostat Copies)
of Family Estate Book |
1795-1812 | |
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Box 36, Legal Documents, 1707-1822
Scope and ContentsFor folder descriptions, see White's guide, Volume 2, page 311. Additionally, this folder contains a small amount of miscellaneous material not directly pertaining to legal documentation, including sermons and parlor games. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 36 | Folder : 1 | William and Gerard Beekman, Deeds, Bills, Receipts and Agreements, including one letter
in French |
1707-1788 | |
Box: 36 | Folder : 2 | Abraham Beekman, Samuel Beekman, James Beekman, Gerard Beekman, Indentures |
1718-1818 | |
Box: 36 | Folder : 3 | Indentures |
1742-1763 | |
Box: 36 | Folder : 4 | William Beekman, Abraham Beekman, Gerard Beekman, Mary Beekman, Catherine Beekman,
Indentures |
1774-18221795-1822 | |
Box: 36 | Folder : 5 | John Beekman, Gerard Beekman, Peter Taylor, Indentures |
1761-1818 | |
Box: 36 | Folder : 6 | William and Gerard Beekman, Indentures, Release for Water Lot |
1751-1792 | |
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Box 37 and 38(A), Beekman Family Estates, Accounts and Correspondence; Box 38(A),
James W. Beekman, 1761-1863
Scope and ContentsBoxes 37 and 38(A) have been combined into one box. For more information, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 312-319. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 37 | Folder : 1 | William Beekman, Materials Pertaining to Estate Division, Funeral Costs, Accounts,
and Federal Repayment for Revolutionary War Cannons. Includes William Beekman's Estate
Inventory, Negatives and Original |
1764-1795 | |
Box: 37 | Folder : 2 | Gerard Beekman, James Beekman, Samuel Beekman, Abraham Beekman, Mary Beekman, Agreements,
Indentures, and Correspondence |
1764-1813 | |
Box: 37 | Folder : 3 | James Beekman, William Beekman, Mary Beekman, Cornelia Beekman, and Gerard Beekman,
Bills, Receipts, Correspondence. Includes Promissory Note Sent from William Duer
to John Pintard, 1792. |
1757-1796 | |
Box: 37 | Folder : 4 | Abraham Van Gelder and Daniel Ryan, Estate Documents, Power of Attorney, Receipts,
and Indentures |
1765-1820 | |
Box: 37 | Folder : 5 | Jane Keteltas Estate Documents, Receipts and Accounts for Gerard Beekman, John Beekman,
James Beekman |
1767-1823 | |
Box: 38(A) | Folder : 1 | James W. Beekman, Accounts with John Beekman, The Heirs of William Beekman, J.C.D.
Beekman, and Abraham Cox |
1820-1842 | |
Box: 38(A) | Folder : 2 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence from Seeland and Beckwith |
1838-1849 | |
Box: 38(A) | Folder : 3 | James W. Beekman, Estate, Property Documentation Pertaining to Beekmantown
Scope and ContentsMaterials are not organized in chronological order. |
Circa 1830s-1850s | |
Box: 38(A) | Folder : 4 | James W. Beekman, Accounts and Items Pertaining to California Trade, Bill of Goods
for W.J. Milledoler |
Circa 1840s-1863 | |
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Box 38(B), James W. Beekman, 1823-1897
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 38(B) | Folder : 5 | James W. Beekman, Mount Pleasant Dutch Reformed Church |
1860-1861 | |
Box: 38(B) | Folder : 6 | James W. Beekman, Taxes, Assessments |
1855-1858, undated | |
Box: 38(B) | Folder : 7 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence, Accounts (some with London), Obituary, Clippings,
American Tract Society Document, Will of Alida Beekman, Fr/Ger ad for Water of Cologne,
some genealogical research |
1823-1897 | |
Box: 38(B) | Folder : 8 | James W. Beekman, Accounts, Mortgages, Assessments, Taxes |
1837-1855 | |
Box: 38(B) | Folder : 9 | James W. Beekman, Receipts |
1856-1857 | |
Box: 38(B) | Folder : 10 | James W. Beekman, Accounts, Receipts |
1858 | |
Box: 38(B) | Folder : 11 | James W. Beekman, Accounts, Receipts |
1859 | |
Box: 38(B) | Folder : 12 | James W. Beekman, Lecture on Divorce, Proposal for "The Three Hundred" Patriotic Social
Club |
Undated | |
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Box 39(A), Genealogical Papers, Circa 1870-1903
Scope and ContentsFor extensive detail regarding the contents of this box, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 328-335 (Note: Materials within Box 39(A) and 39(B) appear to have been compiled by J.W. Beekman, Jr., for use in a publication; it's possible that the June 15, 1908 New York Evening Post article in Box 12, Folder 2, is the result of this research). For further genealogical material, see Box 12. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 39(A) | Folder : 1 | Organizational Material and Correspondence Pertaining to the Society of Colonial Wars,
Yacht Club, New-York Historical Society, Columbia Alumni Association, Union Club,
and Trustee of New York Hospital, Lake George Memorial |
1903, undated | |
Box: 39(A) | Folder : 2 | Genealogical Material (collected in the 1890's), Including Material Copied from Family
Bibles, Copy of 1700's Peartree Patent, Correspondence, Family Trees. |
1870-1890, undated | |
Box: 39(A) | Folder : 3 | Genealogical Material, including Family Trees, Rutgers/Depeyster Families, Issue of
Jan. 1903 Huguenot Magazine. |
1893-1894, undated | |
Box: 39(A) | Folder : 4 | Genealogical Material, Predominantly Correspondence, Some in German and French |
1874-1901, undated | |
Box: 39(A) | Folder : 5 | Genealogical Material, Correspondence, Copies of Dutch Reformed Church Records, List
of Marriages, Newspaper Clippings, Some in French |
1892-1899 | |
Box: 39(A) | Folder : 6 | Genealogical Material, Mostly Focused on pre-Colonial Dutch Ancestry, Notes and Drafts
of Family Trees, Correspondence, Correspondence, Some in French One in Dutch (translated) |
1892-1896, undated | |
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Box 39(B), Genealogical Papers, 1880-1901
Scope and ContentsIn the majority of these folders, there are documents in Dutch and French. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 39(B) | Folder : 7 | Genealogical Material, Much in Dutch, Will of Cornelius Beekman
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsMany materials are in fragile condition or placed within plastic sleeves. |
Circa 1755-1795 | |
Box: 39(B) | Folder : 8 | Genealogical Material, Notes, Some in French, Dutch |
1890-1900 | |
Box: 39(B) | Folder : 9 | Genealogical Material, Notes, Newspaper Article on Beekman Family From the New York
Evening Post, dated June 15, 1901, Advertisements for Genealogy Books, Some in French |
1895-1901, undated | |
Box: 39(B) | Folder : 10 | Genealogical Material, Notes, Correspondence, Livingston Family Tree, Some in Dutch
and French |
1880-1890, undated | |
Box: 39(B) | Folder : 11 | Genealogical Material, Notes, Correspondence, Some in French |
1892-1901, undated | |
Box: 39(B) | Folder : 12 | Genealogical Material, Notes, Correspondence, Order Forms for Genealogy Books, Some
in Dutch |
1896-1900 | |
Box: 39(B) | Folder : 13 | Genealogical Material, Notes, Correspondence |
1894-1896, undated | |
Box: 39(B) | Folder : 14 | Genealogical Material, Notes, Correspondence, Documentation Pertaining to Marriages
of Morris and Walton Families, Morris Family History |
1885-1896, undated | |
Box: 39(B) | Folder : 15 | Genealogical Material, Pertaining to the Death of Sir Elias Beekman (1678), Battle
of Aardenburg, and the Beekman Coat of Arms, Some in Dutch, French |
1894-1897, undated | |
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Box 40(A), Genealogical Papers, Undated
Scope and ContentsSome additional description available in White's guide, Volume 2, page 336. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 1 | General Family History, Notes |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 2 | Documentation Regarding European Beekmans, Notes and Correspondence |
Undated, 1893-1899 | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 3 | William Beekman, Miscellaneous Beekman, Notes, Family Tree, Newspaper Clippings |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 4 | Livingston Family |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 5 | Materials Pertaining to Related Families, Including Duane, Stuyvesant, Abeel, DeBow,
and Others |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 6 | Material Pertaining to Mount Pleasant |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 7 | Drew Family |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 8 | G.W. Beekman |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 9 | Gerard Beekman (Father of J.W. Beekman) |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 10 | Gerardus Beekman |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 11 | Col. Henry Beekman |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 12 | Jacobus Beekman |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 13 | James Beekman |
Undated | |
Box: 40(A) | Folder : 15 | Keteltas Family |
Undated | |
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Box 40(B), Genealogical Papers, 1893-1894, undated
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 40(B) | Folder : 16 | Dr. William Beekman |
Undated | |
Box: 40(B) | Folder : 17 | Other Beekman Branches |
Undated | |
Box: 40(B) | Folder : 18 | Notebook of Genealogy
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsContains bound volume |
Undated | |
Box: 40(B) | Folder : 19 | Letterpress Book of Genealogical Correspondence
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsContains a bound volume in fragile condition |
1893 | |
Box: 40(B) | Folder : 20 | Notebooks on Genealogy, including Family Trees |
Undated | |
Box: 40(B) | Folder : 21 | Genealogical Notes and Correspondence |
1893, undated | |
Box: 40(B) | Folder : 22 | Genealogical Notes and Correspondence |
1894, undated | |
Box: 40(B) | Folder : 23 | Genealogical Notes |
Undated | |
Box: 40(B) | Folder : 24 | Genealogical Notes |
Undated | |
Box: 40(B) | Folder : 25 | Genealogical Notes |
Undated | |
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Box 41(A), James W. Beekman, Accounts, 1861-1866
Scope and ContentsShort description is available in White's guide, Volume 2, pages 302-303. Heavy box filled with misc accounts and receipts. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 41(A) | Folder : 1 | James W. Beekman, Various Accounts, Receipts, Indenture |
1861 | |
Box: 41(A) | Folder : 2 | James W. Beekman, Various Accounts, Receipts |
1862-1863 | |
Box: 41(A) | Folder : 3 | James W. Beekman, Various Accounts, Receipts |
1863 | |
Box: 41(A) | Folder : 4 | James W. Beekman, Bills Paid, Accounts, Receipts |
1864 | |
Box: 41(A) | Folder : 5 | James W. Beekman, Bills Paid, Accounts, Receipts |
1865-1866 | |
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Box 41(B), James W. Beekman, Accounts, 1850-1871
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 41(B) | Folder : 6 | James W. Beekman, Various Accounts |
1867 | |
Box: 41(B) | Folder : 7 | James W. Beekman, Various Accounts |
1868-1871 | |
Box: 41(B) | Folder : 8 | James W. Beekman, Cancelled Checks |
1850-1862, 1868 | |
Box: 41(B) | Folder : 9 | James W. Beekman, Correspondence, Accounts, Checks, Large Account With Margaret Milledoler,
Marriage Notification James W. Beekman and Abian (Abby) Steele Milledoler
Scope and ContentsItems in folder are not described in White's guide. |
1840-1860 | |
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Box 42, Theophilus E. Beekman, 1789-1906
Scope and ContentsFor more information, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 439-441. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 42 | Folder : 1 | Correspondence, Shares of Stock in Turnpikes |
1809, 1814, 1830, 1845 | |
Box: 42 | Folder : 2 | Theophilus Elsworth Beekman, son of Theophilus Beekman and Elizabeth Matthews, Husband
of Maritta Hathway, Papers, Including Purchase Registers, Correspondence, Newspaper
Clippings |
Undated | |
Box: 42 | Folder : 3 | Theophilus E. Beekman, Correspondence Received |
1813-1828 | |
Box: 42 | Folder : 4 | Theophilus E. Beekman, Correspondence and Legal Papers |
1833-1837 | |
Box: 42 | Folder : 5 | Theophilus E. Beekman, Correspondence and Legal Papers |
1840-1859 | |
Box: 42 | Folder : 6(I) | Material Concerning the Descendants of Theophilus E. Beekman, Including Inventories
and Estate Disposition Materials |
1902-1906 | |
Box: 42 | Folder : 6(II) | Material Concerning the Descendants of Theophilus E. Beekman. Mostly about Estate
of T.H. Beekman, Jr, and Marietta Beekman Mundy and Maud Woodhouse |
1866-1905, 1833 | |
Box: 42 | Folder : 7(I) | John Hathaway (Father of Marietta Hathaway, wife of Theophilus E. Beekman) and Hathaway
Family Papers, Including Indentures |
1789-1807 | |
Box: 42 | Folder : 7(II) | John Hathaway (Father of Marietta Hathaway, wife of Theophilus E. Beekman) and Hathaway
Family Papers, Includes Schoolbook of Arithmetic |
1811-1864 | |
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Box 43(A), Genealogy and Legal Papers, 1700-Circa 1920
Scope and ContentsFor Genealogy Material, see also Box 12 and 39(A)-40. Some description of this box is in White's guide, pages 372-373. It is not a comprehensive description. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 43(A) | Folder : 1 | Revolutionary Generation Material, Accounts, Correspondence, Chancery Court Record
for Abraham Beekman Estate, Newspaper Clipping, Deed |
1703-1810, 1920's | |
Box: 43(A) | Folder : 2 | Genealogy, American Branches, Beekman and Van Dyke Genealogy |
1885-1930 | |
Box: 43(A) | Folder : 3 | Business and Legal Papers, Correspondence, Wills and Death Notices, Maps of Property
and Willed Property to Johanna, Catherine, Magdalen, Margaret, Jane |
1770-1820 | |
Box: 43(A) | Folder : 4 | Revolutionary Generation Papers Relating to Carriage, Beekman Arms (hotel), Paintings,
Sofa, Documents on "The Cliffs" Long Island Home, Clippings |
Circa 1900 | |
Box: 43(A) | Folder : 5 | Revolutionary Generation Wills, Land Papers, Accounts, Taxes, Probate of Will of Rachel
Winne, Marriage Certificates, Much on Keteltas Family |
1720-1815 | |
Box: 43(A) | Folder : 6 | Militia Commission to William Beekman |
1746 and 1755 | |
Box: 43(A) | Folder : 7 | Bond Indicating William Beekman's Disposition of Interest in Captured Vessel Brought
in by Privateer "William" |
1746 | |
Box: 43(A) | Folder : 8 | Gerard G. Beekman, Letterbook (large) |
1746-1750 | |
Box: 43(A) | Folder : 9 | Book: American Genealogy, A History of Some of the Early Settlers in N. America and
their Descendants |
1848 | |
Box: 43(A) | Folder : 10 | Henry Beekman, Copy re: Patent for Land in Dutchess County |
1924 | |
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Box 43(B), Genealogy and Legal Papers, 1746-1933
Scope and ContentsFor more description, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 372 to 373. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 43(B) | Folder : 11 | Gerard Beekman, Diploma from Columbia College and Commencement Address, Focusing on
Women's Education and Intellect |
1792 | |
Box: 43(B) | Folder : 12 | Papers of Tarrytown Beekmans, Largely Deeds, War of 1812 Military Appointment |
1746-1812 | |
Box: 43(B) | Folder : 13 | Notes on Boston Newspapers in the Eighteenth Century, Including Stories Relating to
William Beekman |
Undated | |
Box: 43(B) | Folder : 14 | Revolutionary Generation, Wills and Related Papers, including the estate list of James
Beekman, 1833, and Materials relating to the compact wills of William, Catherine,
and Mary Beekman, including Conveyances, Probate Materials, and Estate Disposition |
1784-1833 | |
Box: 43(B) | Folder : 15 | Beekman Family Arms, Article in the "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,"
Correspondence |
1931-1933, undated | |
Box: 43(B) | Folder : 16 | Genealogy, European Beekmans, Correspondence, Clippings, Notes |
1897-1926, undated | |
Box: 43(B) | Folder : 17 | William Beekman, Letter sent to Brother James and Order for a Keg of Wine "by my Negro
man Hanover" |
August 22, 1780 | |
Box: 43(B) | Folder : 18 | Wilhelmus Baudartius, Autobiography |
1915 | |
Box: 43(B) | Folder : 19 | Account of Beekman Family Bible |
1924 | |
Box: 43(B) | Folder : 20 | William Beekman, Pocket Almanac, Poem of John J. Beekman |
1773, 1911 | |
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Box 44, James W. Beekman, 1796-1909 1833-1865
Scope and ContentsFor additional information, see White's guide, Volume 2, pages 342 to 367, which contains item-level description of materials in letterbooks. |
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 1 | James W. Beekman, Personal Correspondence, Reports for N.S. Milledoler, Introductions |
1833-1874 | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 2 | James W. Beekman, Letter to New York Evening Post, Picture of William Beekman (same
image in book in Folder 9)
Scope and ContentsSome material from Folder 2 is described in White's guide, Volume 2, page 369 in "College Notebooks, James W. Beekman." |
1908 | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 3 | Senator Dixon, Correspondence, Letter from Joseph Francis from St Petersburg |
1859-1860 | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 4 | James W. Beekman, Wills, M. Romero Letter on Death of Lincoln |
1848-1865 | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 5 | James W. Beekman, Taxes, Property Papers and Map |
1861-1866 | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 6 | James W. Beekman, Dutch Reformed Church Affairs and Catalogue of Members, Post Office
Land Purchase, Milledoler Will Papers, Accounts, Checks |
1849-1865 | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 7 | James W. Beekman, Business Papers (Including Papers Regarding Sewer on 50th Street),
Bonds and Mortgages, Will of Catherine Boudinot (Beekman), Investment in Oil Property,
Correspondence, Receipts |
1837-1864 | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 8 | James W. Beekman, Business Agreements, Legal Papers, Property Papers |
1835-1867 | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 9 | The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Book |
January 1909 | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 10 | James W. Beekman, Engravings |
Undated | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 11 | Caty Landers and Mary Hamilton, School Notebooks |
1796, Undated | |
Box: 44 | Folder : 12 | James W. Beekman, Gerard Beekman, and James W. Beekman, Jr., College Degrees, Bar
Acceptance |
1867-1871 | |
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Box 45, Memorabilia, 1808-1926
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 45 | Folder : 1 | "Us," A Book of Poems |
Undated | |
Box: 45 | Folder : 2 | General John Steele, Personal and Official Papers (Collector of Customs at Philadelphia,
circa 1808-1811). Consists largely of correspondence sent between Philadelphia and
Washington City, and contains discussion of the trade embargo. |
1808-1864 | |
Box: 45 | Folder : 3 | Benjamin F. Beekman, Draft Copy of Will |
1875 | |
Box: 45 | Folder : 4 | Papers of Intermediate Generation between James and James W. Beekman, Pertaining Largely
to Gerard Beekman. Includes Newspaper Clippings, Chancery Court Petition, Correspondence |
1811-1863 | |
Box: 45 | Folder : 5 | Papers of Intermediate Generation between James and James W. Beekman, Regarding Lots
#99 and #112 on Broadway and Mercer Street, and Gerard Beekman and Isaac Cox, Including
Supreme Court Documentation and Receipts |
1816-1818 | |
Box: 45 | Folder : 6 | James W. Beekman, Columbia College Paper, Correspondence
Scope and ContentsPotentially detailed in White's guide, page 369. |
1833-1835 | |
Box: 45 | Folder : 7 | Papers of Intermediate Generation between James and James W. Beekman, Pertaining largely
to Gerard Beekman |
1811-1839 | |
Box: 45 | Folder : 8 | Papers, Post James W. Beekman, Including Clippings, Church Bulletins, Correspondence,
Genealogy, and Obituaries. Includes Invitation to Dinner with President Teddy Roosevelt
at the White House in 1902 and Correspondence with Roosevelt. |
1887-1926 | |
Box: 45 | Folder : 9 | Family Scrapbook
Physical Characteristics and Technical RequirementsBound volume. |
Undated | |
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Box 46, Gerard Beekman, 1837-1910 1910
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 46 | Folder : 1 | Charities of Gerard Beekman, Church Organ Brochures, Documents on Construction of
Almshouse "Hall" for Jones Institute |
Circa 1910 | |
Box: 46 | Folder : 2 | Charities of Gerard Beekman, "Hall" Construction Documents |
Circa 1910 | |
Box: 46 | Folder : 3 | Charities of Gerard Beekman, Correspondence, Rutgers College 150 Yr Anniversary, Church
Construction and Repairs |
Circa 1910 | |
Box: 46 | Folder : 4 | Charities of Gerard Beekman, Seamen's Church Institute Dedication, Church Repairs
and Charitable Giving, Plans for "All Angels Church," Twilight Park, NY. |
Circa 1910 | |
Box: 46 | Folder : 5 | Gerard Beekman, Plots of Land and Genealogical Notes on William Beekman (18th Century),
Documents on Harlem Property including Maps |
1890-1910 | |
Box: 46 | Folder : 6 | Gerard Beekman, Plots of Land Documents in Scotia, NY, Genealogical Notes on Keteltas
Family |
Circa 1910 | |
Box: 46 | Folder : 7 | Papers and Maps of Real Estate in Upper East Side, 1887, James W. Beekman Death and
Supporting Documents |
1837-1839, Undated | |
Box: 46 | Folder : 8 | Photos of Documents for Family Genealogy (mostly 18th-19th centuries) and Herald's
College, London |
Undated | |
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Box 47, Beekman Family Oversized Materials, 1781-1925, Undated
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Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
Box: 47 | Folder : 1 | Beekman and Related Families, Family Trees and Genealogical Notes
Scope and ContentsPreviously housed in Beekman Family Box 39 |
Undated | |
Box: 47 | Folder : 2 | Complaint of James Beekman, Jr., regarding the Estate of Lydia Matthews Beekman, 1834;
Beekman Coat of Arms
Scope and ContentsPreviously housed in Beekman Family Box 24 |
1834, Undated | |
Box: 47 | Folder : 3 | Beekman Family Account Book
Scope and ContentsPreviously housed in Beekman Family Box 24, Folder 16 |
1781-1783 | |
Box: 47 | Folder : 4 | Survey of Union Cemetery, dated July 6, 1852; Beekman Crest, Original and Copy
Scope and ContentsPreviously housed in Beekman Family Box 25 |
1852, 1925 | |
Box: 47 | Folder : 5 | Agreement for Cemetery Plot for Wilhelmus Beekman and Heirs; Survey of Ten Lots of
Land along the East River, from Turtle Bay to Saw Kill, Tracing Ownership to 1676-1677
Scope and ContentsPreviously housed in Beekman Family Box 12 |
1765, Undated | |
Box: 47 | Folder : 6 | Beekman, James, Alphabetical Index of Accounts |
Circa 1800 | |
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