6                      THE BEEKMAN FAMILY

among you all, and that is that you fall not by the way,
whilst you live in this world,—so that ye be kindly affec¬
tionate one to the other; that what by 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."

Wilhelmus Beekman and Catharine De Boogh his wife
had children:

I. Maria Beekman, baptized June 26, 1650; married
May 5, 1672, Nicholas William Stuyvesant, bom in
1648; died in 1695; son of Governor Peter Stuyvesant.
They had a daughter Judith Stuyvesant, who died in
1694, unmarried. After the death of his wife Maria
Beekman, Nicholas W. Stuyvesant married Elizabeth
Van Slichtenhorst.