Albert Pawling

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military, 7 Oct 1717. I enlisted in the King's army on October 7, 1717 in Marbletown, New York.

Albert married Catherine Beekman on 26 Nov 1726 in Ulster County, New York.

  Marriage Notes:

REV. GERARD BEEKMAN




Gerard was a distinguished theologian and was rewarded by King James I of England for his services in translating the Bible to English. The King granted Gerard a Coat of Arms - a rivulet running between roses -and a crest of three feathers on a helmet of steel represented in profile. the motto is "Mens Conscia Recti" meaning "mind conscious of the right."

This Coat of Arms was used by his grandson Wilhelmus Beekman in his correspondence to (New York) Governor Peter Stuyvesant. The Beekmans were steadfast Protestants from the time that Martin Luther protested against the corruptions of the Church of Rome in 1521. Gerard lived most of his life in Cologne. He and his wife, Agnes, had three sons and two daughters.

Children of GERARD BEEKMAN and AGNES STUNNING are:



1. HENDRICK BEEKMAN was born September 17, 1585 in Cologne, Germany, and died December 02, 1642 in Wesel. He married (3) ALIDA OTTENBEEK. She was born December 08, 1605 in Cologne, Germany. He married (1) GERTRYD (GERTRUDE) GOMENSBACH April 15, 1613. She died September 10, 1619. They had one daughter and three that died in infancy. He married (2) MARY BAUDERTIUS, my ancestor, January 24, 1621, daughter of REV. WILLIAM BAUDERTIUS. She was born 1600 in Zutphen, Guelderland, and died 1630 in Berge. They had the following children:


Wilhelmus b. april 28, 1623 Hasselt, Oberyssal m. September 5, 1649 Catalina De Boog d. September 21, 1707

Wilhelmus Beekman was the founder of the Beekman family in America. He came to New Amsterdam, now New York, from Holland on the ship Princess, on May 27, 1647, with Director-General, and later the first Governor of New York, Peter Stuyvesant. Accompanying them were a number of poor persons of good families who came from the Rhine and settled on the Hudson River. They became firm supporters of their leader and benefactor, Wilhelmus Beekman.
Wilhelmus was interested in religious matters from his youth and at the age of twenty-one, he was an officer in the Reformed Church in the Netherlands, which had then become the most advanced nation in the world in learning and thought.
He had a good education and splendid home training which enabled him at once to take a position in the best society of New Amsterdam. It is said that he brought some wealth with him and that his personal charm of manner and friendship with Stuyvesant secured him many advantages as well as a prominent position as treasurer of the Dutch West India Company. At any rate he soon cut out the suitors for the hand of Catalina de Boogh, a belle in the society of New Amsterdam and the daughter of the wealthy Hendricks de Boogh of Albany, New York.
The Beekman family were prominent in the history of New York and New Jersey and his name is perpetuated in the names of William Street and Beekman Street, New York City, which later became legally a street in 1734. While visiting New York in 1974, I saw Beekman Street which crosses Wall Street. There is also a Beekman Place and a Beekman Swamp which were named after our ancestor.
From the beginning, he was identified with affairs of state and the government of the new city. In 1652, he purchased a farm from Jacob Corlaer known as Corlaer's Hook, where he lived with his bride. They were fully launched into the delightful society of the Dutch city, which then resided those men and women of culture and earnest endeavor who built up a nation and to whom so many of us are proud to trace back our ancestry.
A general meeting of the Director-General and council of New Netherlands was held with the Burgomasters and Schepens (magistrates) on the 13th of March 1653, at which time it was decreed that breastworks or a wall should be built to protect the city and that the cost should be levied against the estates. Peter Wolfersen Van Couwenhoven and Wilhelmus Beekman were choses Commissioners and authroized to offer proposals, invite bids, and make the contract for the present Wall Street, skirting De Heere Gracht, an inlet of the bay, where Broad Street now is located.

At the East River end, at Pearl Street, was a fort called Water Poort, and at the Broadway end was antoher called the Land Poort. In the same year Wilhemus was appointed one of the five Schepens of New Amsterdam. He served between 1652 and 1658 as Lieutenant of the Burgher Corps of New Amsterdam and then in 1658 he received, through the influence of the Dutch West India Company, the appointment of Vice-Director or Governor of the colony of Swedes on the Delaware or South River, where he resided until 1663. He moved to Esopus, now Kingston, New York, to assume the duties of his new appointment as Schout (Sheriff) and Commissary of Esopus. He took the oath of allegiance to Charles II on October 18, 1664.
His jurisdiction as Commissary at Esopus and its dependecies extended from the Katskill, where that of Fort George terminated, to the Dans Kamer, a few miles above the highlands, which was the northern limit of the jurisdiction of Fort Amsterdam. His home at Esopus was the scene of many memorable gatherings of distinguished men. He entertained Governors Cartwright, Nichols and Lovelace. According to Broadheads History, he resided there until 1672.
In 1670, he purchased property along the East River from Thomas Hall, now known as Pearl Street and bounded by Nassau Street on the west. The southerly boundary of the farm was where Fulton Street is now located and the northerly boundary was Kripple Bush, now called Beekman's Swamp. According to Valentine's History of New York, Beekman's Swamp was sold in 1734 to Jacobus Roosevelt for two hundred pounds by the corporation.
The Beekman homestead in New Amsterdam was built near the present corner of Pearl and Beekman Streets by Wilhemus Beekman in 1670. Wilhelmus was Lieutenant of the melitia in 1673, and Deputy Mayor of New York from 1681 to 1683. In 1686, he and four other Dutchmen purchased 2,200 riverside acres on the Hudson River from the Sepasco and Esopus Indians. The price was 6 buffaloes, 4 blankets, 5 kettles, 4 guns, 5 axes, 10 cans of powder, 8 skirts, 40 fathoms of wampum, 2 drawing knives, 2 adzes, half an anker of rum and one frying pan. He built a stone house on the Hudson River in Dutchess County and called the estate "Ryn Beck" which is the present site of historic Rhinebeck, NY. He was alderman of the east ward in 1691. He occupied the Beekman homestead on the estate purchased from Thomas Hall until his death on September 21, 1707, at the age of eighty-five years.

In his will, Wilhelmus Beekman left this last admonition to his children: "My desire is that no discord may arise in the division of the estate which the Lord in his mercy hath lent me. The same advice that Joseph gave to his brethren, I leave among you all, and that is, that you fall not by the way, whilst you live in this world, so that ye be kindly affectionate one to the other; that what God's blessing I have advanced, I have endeavoured and laboured to gain it honestly, so would I have you to do, and to keep faith and a good conscience always; for a good name is better than riches and honours."

Children of WILHELMUS BEEKMAN and CATALINA DE BOOGH are:



1. MARIA BEEKMAN, b. 1650; d. 1695; m. NICHOLAS WILLIAM STUYVESANT, May 05, 1672; b. 1648; d. Bet. 1679-1739. Son of Governor Peter Stuyvesant.


Child of MARIA BEEKMAN and NICHOLAS STUYVESANT is:


1. JUDITH STUYVESANT, b. Bet. 1668-1691; d. 1694. She never married. 2. HENDRICK BEEKMAN was born 1652, and died 1716. He married JOHANNA LOPERS June 05, 1681, daughter of LUYT LOPERS. She was born 1650, and died Bet. 1690-1745.


3. COLONEL GERARDUS BEEKMAN, M.D. (my ancestor) b. August 17, 1653, Flatbush, Long Island; d. October 10, 1723, NY; m. MAGDALENA ABEEL, August 29, 1677; b. 1657, Albany, NY; d. October 20, 1745. 4. CORNELIA BEEKMAN, b. 1655; d. April 1679; m. ISAAC VER VLECK, September 19, 1674; b. Bet. 1629-1655; d. Bet. 1679-1743. 5. JOHANNES BEEKMAN, b. 1656; d. July 21, 1751, Kingston NY. 6. JACOBUS BEEKMAN, b. 1658; d. 1679. 7. WILHELMUS BEEKMAN, b. July 20, 1664; d. 1702. 8. MARTINUS BEEKMAN, b. 1665; d. Bet. 1666-1755


HENDRICK BEEKMAN




Henry was a judge and a member of the first assembly under authority of the British King which met in New York City on April 9, 1691. The delegates from Ulster and Dutchess Counties were Henry Beekman and Thomas Garton. In 1697, Judge Beekman obtained a Royal Patent for the lands adjacent to Ryn Beck (Rhinebeck, New York) and by 1713, there was a mill, a church, a blacksmith shop, and William Traphagen's tavern. In 1766, Traphagen's Tavern was established as Beekman Arms, known as "America's Oldest Inn." The Beekman Arms is credited by the historians and the American Hotel Association as being the "Oldest Hotel in America" in continuous operation. The Inn was built at the intersection of the Sepasco Indian trail to the river and Post Road, the road from New York to Albany (Fort Orange), now Rhinebeck's West Market Street and Oak Street, Route 9.
In its beginning, the Beekman Arms was a one-story stone building constructed with a dual purpose in mind; to provide bed and board for the traveler, and to serve as a shelter for the local residents against Indian attack. Later, during the Revolutionary War, General Washington often watched his troops drilling in the square from a corner window while he awaited for his couriers to arrive with news.
Many other famous persons of past and present have also visited the old Inn, including General Montgomery, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, DeWitt Clinton, Benedict Arnold, Martin Van Buren, Vice President Levi P. Morton and of more recent times, Franklin D. Roosevelt (a direct descendent of Wilhelmus Beekman through Gerardus Beekman.) Astronaut James Lovell, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, as well as many present personalities from the stage and screen. The restaurant in the Beekman Arms is one of the finest.
The historic Rhinebeck (named by our ancestor, Wilhelmus) contains much of the Beekman history and the largest district of homes on the National Historic Register. Children of HENDRICK BEEKMAN and JOHANNA LOPERS are:


1. WILLIAM BEEKMAN, b. Abt. 1682; d. Abt. 1700, Holland. 2. CATHARINE BEEKMAN, b. September 16, 1683; d. 1745; m. (1) CORNELIUS EXVEEN, Bet. 1711-1738; b. Bet. 1666-1686; d. Bet. 1711-1772; m. (2) ALBERT PAWLING, Bet. 1711-1738; b. Bet. 1666-1686; d. Bet. 1711-1772; m. (3) JOHN RUTSEN, December 12, 1712; b. 1690, Kingston NY; d. Bet. 1718-1781. 3. CORNELIA BEEKMAN, b. 1686; d. Bet. 1714-1780; m. GILBERT LIVINGSTON, Bet. 1710-1720; b. Bet. 1669-1689; d. Bet. 1714-1775. 4. COL. HENRY BEEKMAN, B. 1688; d. Bet. 1731-1779.

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