History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . NTY. known trader, and at one time owned and resided atCorkers Hook now that part of New York City atthe bend of the East River, just below Grand Street,and opposite the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It is atpresent occupied by machine shops and storage ware-houses, and is anything but desirable as a place ofresidence. Governor Stuyvesant appointed him vice-director of the Dutch colony at the South River, ormouth of the Delaware; but after serving for a time,he remov
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . NTY. known trader, and at one time owned and resided atCorkers Hook now that part of New York City atthe bend of the East River, just below Grand Street,and opposite the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It is atpresent occupied by machine shops and storage ware-houses, and is anything but desirable as a place ofresidence. Governor Stuyvesant appointed him vice-director of the Dutch colony at the South River, ormouth of the Delaware; but after serving for a time,he removed to Esopus, up the Hudson, and subse-quently returned to New York City, in 1670. Therehe purchased the farm upon which the present Beek-man Street was laid out. He owned also BeekmansSwamp, still known as the Swamp, and the centreof the hide and leather business, lying between theCity Hall Park and Franklin Square. Its pungentodor of salted hides and fresh sole leather is alwaysperceptible to the stranger passing through it. Wil-liam Beckman died in 1707 at the age of eighty-five,leaving one daughter and three sons, Henry, Gerard. MRS. ItKKKMAS. and Johannes. Gerard G. Beckman, the purchaserof the property here referred to, was a grandson ofWilliam Beckman. About the year 17(i.) he marriedthat remarkable woman, Miss Cornelia Van Cort-landt, second daughter of Pierre Van Cortlandt, pro-prietor of the Van Cortlandt manor and manor-housestill standing and occupied by the Van Cortlandtfamily, north of the Croton River. Her father wasLieutenant-Governor of the State of New York underGeorge Clinton from 1777 to 1795, and was distin-guished for his vigorous support of the cause of inde-pendence during the Revolutionary War. On hermarriage with Gerard G. lUckman, at the age ofseventeen, she removed, with her husband, to NewYork City, and resided while there in the streetbearing his family name. When the storm of warburst upon the city, she removed again to the scenesof her
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