Beekman is acommunity inDutchess County, New York,United States. It is named after Henry Beekman, whose family owned owned land in the county as well asslaves.^[1][2]

1. ↑"Town History".Town of Beekman, NY.Archived from the original on 2008-10-09.
2. ↑White, Philip L. (1999)."Beekman, Henry (1688-1776), New York landowner and provincial assemblyman".American National Biography.doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0101210.ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7. Retrieved2020-11-12.Beekman was not a self-made man. HisDutch ancestors were prominent locally in the turmoil associated with theProtestant Reformation and the Dutch struggle forindependence fromSpain. His immigrant grandfather, William Beekman, was an administrative subordinate to the governor ofNew Netherland. His father was a militia leader from Ulster County whose work in preparing for possible attacks by the French during King William's War (1689–1697), plus a small gratuity to the governor, won him land grants later branded "as large as a middling county ofEngland." These Dutchess County land grants (Rhinebeck Patent, 21,766 acres; Beekman Patent, 84,000 acres) became the basis for the younger Henry Beekman's career.

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