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Beekman Livingston was born Dec. 11, 1762, in Poughkeepsie and
in 1781 he was a proprietor of one of the two stores in that village.
It was located on the southeast corner of Market and Cannon
Streets and carried an assortment of dry goods, groceries, drugs,
hardware, etc. On the night of Oct. 19, 1781, he illuminated the
store when word was received of the surrender of Cornwallis at
Yorktown (James Hl. Smith, Hist. Dutc. Co., 1882, p.142). The
records of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie show that he lived there in
1784 and 1790, but he was in New Lebanon, N.Y., in 1786, helping
in the store of his brother-in-law, Paul Schenck.
There are conflicting accounts as to his family and where he spent his last years. Hiw wife is known to be Catharine Marsh of Poughkeepsie although there is some evidence that he had previously been married to a Miss Kelcey. On leaving Poughkeepsie he went to the Genesee Valley and an extant letter, written by his nephew Dr. Charles P. Livingston, to the latter's father in 1817, gives an account of a trip he took in northern New York. He visited a daughter of Beekman, Mrs. John W. Cady in Johnstown, N.Y., and he relates of having been told that his uncle had removed to a farm 25 miles out of Johnstown. Another family account states that Beekman died in Syracuse but a diligent search through a large number of cemeteries and inquiries at many Surrogates' Courts have yielded no results. |
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