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April 19, 1777, paid Capt. Glode Requa for his Company, £60.14.7. £83.16.
Sept. 17, 1778, paid Capt. Glode Requa for his-Company, .
He was for one year a prisoner in the old Sugar House Prison, New York, but the date of his capture does not appcar. He was like many others, obliged to remove his family elsewhere for safety, as stated by Peter Van Woermer, his neighbor, to Collaberg, present Croton. He took title from the Commissioners of Forfeiture to the
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valuable farm of 296 acres which he had previously occupied, and also to four lots of one acre each in the present Tarrytown, and at his death: left a valuable estate.
The old Manor records show that Glode Requa was chosen one of the Assessors the Ist Thursday of April, 1753, and that the car marl: of his stock was recorded April 1, 1767. It is said of Glode, Sr., that he was very Frenchy in his talk, and difficult to understand on account of his foreign speech. That he occupied the farm which afterwards descended to hiis eldest son, Glode, Jr., is unquestioned, and that was the carly home of the family on this Manor.
Isaac Requa, the eldest son of Capt. Glode, born 1758, was a Soldier of the Revolution, and commissioned as Adjutant of Col. Ham- mond's Regt., June 16, 1778, having previously been a Lieutenant in Capt. Jonas Orser's Company. Also served under his father, Capt. Glode. The date of his being taken prisoner appears from the follow- ing account rendered against the State, which was duly audited :
The State of New York, Dr. To Isaac Requa to his pay as Lieut. and Adjt. for the time "I was in Captivity" from Jan'y 31, 1779, until Mar. 10, 1730, £244.17.9.
Henricita Paulding Requa, widow of Adjt. Isaac Rcqua, son of Capt. Glode, in her application for pension says that she was married to Isaac Requa on the 12th of April, 1784, when she was IS. That she was a daughter of William Paulding, and was born Oct. 8, 1766.
Peter Van Woermer, aged 87, said he was well acquainted with Isaac Requa and lived in the same township with him during the Revo- lution, one or two miles from him. That his father and the father of the said Isaac removed for a time to Collaberg, 10 or 12 miles above Tarrytown, during the Revolution, and that the two families lived nicar each other on opposite sides of the road. That he was for a time a soldier in the Regt. of which Isaac Reqna was Adjutant, and that he had often scen him in his regimentals on parade. That said Isaac Requa married Henrietta, daughter of William Paulding, deccased, of Tarrytown. That he kept store in Tarrytown; that the store was in the corner of his house which adjoined that of his wife's father, the late Win. Paulding, and that he was in the habit of dealing with him and trading with him at that place.
Elijah Requa said that he was a resident of Tarrytown and 73 years of age ; that the name of his father was James, and of his paternal grandfather, Glode Requa ; that the said Glode was the common
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ancestor of all the Requas heretofore or now living in Westchester Co., and so far as this deponent hath knowledge or belief, of all the Requas heretofore or now living in these United States; that he has often heard from his said father, and it is a matter of family history, that the said Glode, the grandfather of this deponent, cmigrated from Rochelle in France, to the then Colony of New York, during some of the perse- cutions or severe measures against the Protestants; that he first settled at New Rochelle, County of Westchester, and subsequently, and many ycars prior to the Revolution moved over to the western shore of said County and purchased a farin on the Hudson about 11/2 miles south of Tarrytown ; that at his death the said farm descended to his eldest son, also named Glode ; that the male issue of his said grandfather consisted of four sons, whose names were Glode, John, Danicl, and James, the father of this deponent, and that all these sons remained residents of Westchester Co., and lived no great distance apart ; that the eldest, Glode, resided on the old homestead ; that John resided in the town of Mt. Pleasant, about I mile from Sing Sing, and seven or eight miles from Tarrytown; that James and Daniel resided in the town of Mt. Pleasant, about one or two miles east of Tarrytown, the latter upon a farm adjoining and cast of the said James. That John died without issntc. Male issue of the other brothers was as follows :
Glode, Jr., had 6 sons, viz .: Isaac, the husband of Henrietta, Gabriel, Samuel, Daniel, James and Glode, 3d.
Daniel had four sons, viz .: Abraham, John, Danicl and James.
James had 10 sons, viz. : Gabriel, Joseph, Daniel, John, James, Glode, William, Elijalı, (this deponent), Isaac and Gilbert.
The foregoing includes all the Requas in the male line who were living in the County of Westchester during the period of the Revolu- tion, and there were during the Revolution, as herewith shown, but two of the name of Isaac, (one of whom was the oldest son of Glode) and the other the son of James-the ninth son, and the younger brother of the deponent ; that Isaac the son of Glode was an Adjutant in the Revolution, while the other Isaac was only an infant, the younger Isaac having been born on the night on which the elder, Adjutant Isaac, was taken prisoner.
Henrietta Paulding was married to Isaac Requa in May, 1784. Her father was Commissary General, and after the battle of White Plains removed his family to Bedford ; after peace was declared they immediately returned. Justice Requa married them. He (Isaac), died
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in February, 1826. His commission as Adjutant is on file with the pension papers of his widow at the Pension office in Washington.
Isaac Requa, subsequently to the Revolution, became a promin- ent man in this county. Was Supervisor of the town of Greenburgh for six successive terins, from 1787 to 1792, inelusive; was Justice of the Peace for nearly twenty years, and from 1810 to 1820 was an Associate Justice, or side Judge, sitting at County Courts, and was eommonly known as Judge Requa. He was successfully engaged in business at his residence adjoining the residence of Gen. Paulding near the Requa Dock. He accumulated a large estate for those times, and was a highly respected citizen. Left no descendants.
Gabriel Requa, the second son of Capt. Glode and Amy Dean Requa his wife, was born Jan'y 9th, 1760, and died Oet. 8, 1809. His widow, Elizabeth Martling Requa, died Feb. 26, 1815, in her 48th year. This Gabriel Requa was a Soldier of the Revolution ; was in Capt. Gilbert Dean's Company, and was for two months a prisoner in the hands of the enemy. Gabriel and Elizabeth Martling his wife had Emie who married Stephen Van Wart ; Maria who married a Mr. Cole ; a son James Requa who lived at Piermont and had Glode Requa who lives at Monsey, Rockland Co.
James Requa had married Margaret Blauvelt, and died at Pier- mont April 15, 1858.
Gabriel and Elizabeth Martling his wife also had Julia who mar- ricd Isaae Davids, and Gabriel who seems to have been unmarried.
Mary M. Requa, daughter of Glode, married John Van Wart who was a Lieut. in Capt. Martling's Company, and was killed in action near Morrisania, March 4th, 1782.
Samuel Requa, son of Capt. Glode, born Jan. 6, 1764, married Maria Van Wart, July 17, 1786, and lived at the old homestead on or near the site of what was Capt. Glode Requa's house, nearly opposite the entrance to John T. Terry's gate, the house which he built, or rebuilt, still standing there. He was a man of mueh prominence in the community and the father of eleven children.
Barnet Requa, son of Samucl, married a Miss Odell, and lived at Croton. A son, Barnet B. Requa, resides there and a daughter Clara, the wife of Nathanich Lent.
Glode, son of Samuel, removed to Kendall, Orleans County, and accumulated a large property. Was unmarried.
Susan Requa, daughter of Samuel, married James Leggett, of Mt. Pleasant. Amy Requa, daughter of Samuel, married Warner. Willsea, and removed to Kendall, Orleans County.
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Capt. Jacob Requa, a son of Samuel, married Eliza Lawrence daughter of Isaac, and had Maria, who married Isaac F. Van Wart, a grandson of Isaac Van Wart the Captor, and had a son Jacob and two daughters ; John Requa, who went to California 1850, and died at San Francisco about thirty years ago and left a son, Jolin Milton Requa.
Jacob, a son, married Maria L. Lawrence and lived and died in New York city ; left two daughters who are married and live in Cal- ifornia, and a son, Frank C. Rcqua, who is Clerk of the Tarrytown Propeller.
Capt. Samuel Requa, born 1826, married Sarah Brundage, daughter of Ightman Brundage, and has had three sons, Millard, Charles and Harry Requa, all of whom are deceased, and two daughters, of whom only Emma, wife of Walter Connell survives. Millard left a daughter Mabel, who lives with her grandparents, and a widow, Phebe Minnerly Requa. Harry, son of Capt. Samuel, married Hattie Williams of Bedford, and had Harry Merrill, Samuel Irwin, Mary F., Willard Fiske, and James Requa.
Capt. Samuel Regna was with his father as a boy on boats which carried freight and passengers between Tarrytown and New York. In 1855 he commenced business for himself, and continued running the James Benedict as a market boat until he bought the Tarrytown Propeller, in 1866, and continued to run that boat, most of the time in company with Capt. Albert Lewis, until he sold his interest in 1892. Capt. Samuel has retired from business, but at the village election in 1894 was unanimously chosen as one of the Board of Water Commissioners of Tarrytown, and has since been elected Treasurer of the Board. He is also a Trustee and Treas- urer of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Association, a Trustee and Treasurer of the Andre Capture Monument Association, and a mem- ber of the New York Sons of the Revolution.
Isaac, son of Capt. Jacob, whose photo appears herewith, went to California about 1850, and with the exception of a year spent in the east has continued his residence there ever since. Is married and has two children, a son Mark, and a daughter Amy. He was for many years a Superintendent of the Chollar Potosi Silver Mine in Nevada, but left that place and went to Oakland near San Francisco. Is Presi- dent of the Oakland Savings Bank, and in 1894 was elected to the highly responsible position of President of the Central Pacific Railroad.
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Jas. Milton Requa, of New York city, was one of the organiz- ing members of the New York Produce Exchange, and is a member of the Union League Club of that city.
Eliza Jane Requa daughterof Capt. Jacob, married Valentine MI. Hodgson, of White Plains.
Capt. Jacob Requa married second the widow Theall of Haver- straw, and had a son Nathaniel, who lives in New York.
Isaac, twin brother of Capt. Jacob, and son of Capt. Samuel, had Maria, who married Alonzo Leonard ; Isaac, unmarried ; Ama, James M., who married Myra R. Lce of Potsdam, St Lawrence County, Juliet, who married David Kent of Putnam Co., and Grace Requa who mar- ried Frank V. Millard. Isaac Requa was a soldier in the war of ISI2.
Jas. M. Requa, son of Isaac, is a member of the firm of I. & J. M. Reqna, in the grocery trade at Tarrytown, is also now a partner in the Tarrytown Propeller. In 1889 he was clected Receiver of Taxes for the township of Greenburgh. On Feb'y 3d, 1892, was appointed Postmas- ter of Tarrytown.
Isaac Requa, of the firm of I. & J. M. Reqna, was elected Village Treasurer in 1883, and has held that office continuously ever since.
Danicl Requa, son of Capt. Glode of the Revolution, married Olive Acker, and had Mary who married Joseph Sniffen who lived and died at the old Sniffen house recently tom down on Broadway. Rebecca another daughter of Daniel married Isaac Hart.
Gabricl, a son of Daniel, married Abigail Tuttle and removed to Orleans County. He was the father of John L. Requa, Esq., who lived for a time after the war in Florida, and while there came within one vote of being clected United States Senator by the Legislature of that State. Afterwards resided for a time at Tarrytown Heights and while there lost his only son. He removed to Santa Barbara, California, and died there in March, ISSS. This Gabriel also had sons James Dixon, who was a Methodist Minister and now of Pasadena, Cal. ; Henry M., who married Katharine Brown of Yonkers and lived in New York, and had son Henry M., Jr .; Stephen, Isaac, and George, a daughter Harriet who married Geo. Thomas, and a daughter Saralı F. Requa, who married Geo. Root.
Daniel Requa, also had Isaac who married widow Barnett, John who married Iona Ruff, and Stephen, all born in Tarrytown.
Daniel Requa took title to 135 acres of his father's farm in 1819, being that portion which comprised the present Jay Gould place on the
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west side and a considerable portion of that on the east side, where was his residence, an old house standing until about twenty years since.
'T'he drowning of James and Glode, sons of Capt. Glode Requa, was a tragedy the memory of which has been perpetuated in the family. It occurred while crossing the Hudson, either to or from Piermont, onc account says by the upsetting of the boat in a severe storm; another story is that they were struck by lightning-probably on the river opposite the old homestead. An old double tombstone, now fast crum- bling to decay perpetuated the fact of the death of James and Glode Requa, both on the 12th of August, 1789, the age of the foriner being given as 19 years, 6 mo. and 27 days, and of the latter, 14 years, I 1110. and 22 days, but the cause of their death does not there appear.
At Court of Oyer and Terminer, held in November, 1790, Geo. Comb, Esq., Jus'ice, acting as Coroner, returned an inquisition by him taken on the bodies of James Requa, Glode Requa, Jr., and Brebay, a slave, by which it appears that they were drowned in the Hudson by the upsetting of a canoe which they were in, Aug. 12, 1789.
It seemed at first, when the family tree showed that the above James Requa had descendants, that there must be a mistake somewhere, but an examination of the records of the old Dutch Church showed a' James Requa married to Betsey Helliker, as the tree indicated, on the 28th of June, prior to the 12th of August on which he was drowned. IJe was then in his 20th year. And then more than six months after his death a son James was born to him, who has many descendants.
Mr. A. N. Johnson, of 60 Wall St., New York is a great grand- son of James Requa who was drowned, through his mother, Amy Requa, who married Samuel Johnson.
Alexander and Benjamin Requa of Neoslio, Mo., are grandsons of the James Requa who was drowned.
His son James, who married Mary Ruton, had a son Abraham Requa, born 1818, who was formerly a teacher at Irving Institute, Tarrytown, when Mr. Lyon was its Principal, and married his sister, Miss Elizabeth P. Lyon Also son Rev. Henry Requa.
Rachel, a daughter of James and Mary Ruton Reqna, married James E. Sebring and resides at Washington. She is the only living . granddaughter of Jaunes Requa who was so drowned.
Isaac, a son of James and Mary Ruton Requa, married a Miss Whitehead. Then there was a son Henry, and a daughter Elizabeth.
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JAMES REQUA.
James Requa, the second son of Glode, Sr., born 1729-30, iha? ried Maritie Acker, danghter of Wolfert Acker, Sr., Dec. 20, 1752 . probably was married at the Tappan Church, as the marriage is recorder. there, as well as in the old Dutch Church records. When she died ; not known, nor how many children she left, but it must have been prie: to Nov. 1766, as the following, copied from the records in the Register's office of Westchester County, testifies :
James Requaw. and Rebecca his wife, of Philipse Manor, a Black- smith, date of Nov. 3, 1766, conveyed lands to William Ascongli, 3 certain house and lot of land being at Brown's Point, in the town of Ryc, containing 4 acres and 10 rods ; consideration, £130.
The above suggests the interesting query, as to whether James Requa had not for a period at least, resided after his first marriage, and up to the time of his second marriage, in the town of Ryc. Possibly that property was the patrimony of his second wife. Certainly the grave of his first wife is not to be found in the old Dutch Churchyard, neither does his second marriage appear in the old Dutch Church records.
This above is also of interest as being the first transfer of prop- erty by or to a Requa that appears in the old records, so far as has been discovered. And so Jamcs Requa was a blacksmith as well as a Justice of the Pcace, Supervisor, soldier, and farmer, and also the father of a numerous family, consisting of ten sons and three danghters.
He was a Justice of the Peace prior to and during the con- tinance of the Revolution, of which he was a staunch and influen- tial supporter. As appears by the testimony of his son, Licutenant Joseph, his house was burned down by the enemy and a reward offered for his capture. But those things had very little influence with such stern and true Patriots as James Requa.
In the State Treasurer's books is a credit allowed "To James Requa, Sr., for services rendered from May 27, 1779, to May 23d, 17So, omitted by accident from the Pay Roll of Capt. Gabriel Reqna's Company."
At the Town Meeting held on Philipse Manor, the 7th day of April, 1778,-for notwithstanding the turmoil of the Revolution, the Annual Town Meeting was held by these sturdy Patriots, as the records tersely statc, "as usual !"-James Requa (Requaw as it appears on the record written by his son Joseph, and it was the way he himself always wrote it) was chosen one of the Overseers of the Poor.
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The following year, April 6, 1779, James Requa was chosen Supervisor of the then Philipse Manor, or Manor of Philipsburgh, as it was commonly called, being the second Supervisor as the records appear, who was elected under Patriot domination, Joseph Paulding having been the first onc so chosen, the previous year. In this connec- tion it is well to note the fact that at the same Town Meeting held in 1779, not only was James Requa, Esq., chosen Supervisor, but his son Lieutenant Joseph was elected Town Clerk, (as he had been the previous year), another son, Captain Gabriel Requa, was an Assessor, his brothers, John and Daniel Requa were appointed Overseers of Highway, and his brother, Captain Glode Requa, a Fenee Viewer. So that not only on the field, but in civil life the Requas were at the forefront of affairs. .
James Requa, Esq., took title from the Commissioners of For- feiture to the following real estate, as bounded on the Book of Records and Map of M. K. Couzens, Esq. :
REQUA, JAMES, Dec. 6th, '85. A. S 76. 170 acr. N. W. by Mathew Farrington. N. by Daniel Requa. E. by John Requa. S. E. by Isaac Reed. S. W. by Wm. Davids, as now possessed by said J. R. Aug. 3d, '86. A. S. 128. I acr. at Tarrytown. N. by road leading to landing. E. by George Combs. S. by David Storms. W. by Daniel Martling, as now possessed by said J. R.
The will of James Requa was dated Oct. 4, 1811, and proved May 13, 1818. Witnesses, James Foshay, Sarah Graham and Rebeceah Requa. He gave to his sons Joseph, Elijah, William and Isaac $125 cach ; to his grandsons Gabricl, George, James Austin, and Joseph and granddaughter Minerva, children of his son Glode, $500, to be placed at interest until they became of age; to his grandson John R. Requa, son of Gilbert, $500 to be put at interest for his benefit until of age; to daughter Jane Martine, $125; to daughter Sarah Chatterton, $500; and "To my negro man Bra'boy, $50 and his freedom ; to black girl Lena, her freedom."
Rebecca, wife of James Requa, died March 24, ISI1. James Requa, Esq., as it appears upon his tombstone in the old Dutch Church- yard, died Sept. 9th, 1817, in the 88th year of his age.
Gabriel Requa, eldest son of James and Maritie Aeker Requa, married Elizabeth Oakley of White Plains, and had Tamer who was unmarried, Mary who married Elkanah Mead, and Isaae Reqna, who married Susan E. Meed.
Gabriel was a Captain of one of the Militia Companies in Colonel Hammond's Regiment, and did good service. The following account
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of the arrest of a spy in this vicinity by him and his brother Joseph, April, 1777, while yet a Lieutenant, is of interest in this connection
" Friday, April 18, :.:
" Anthony Hill was brought before the Court & charged with holding a treacher :. Correspondence with the Enemy & being employed by them for the purpose of enlistit . Men' into their Service. The Prisoner on his Arraignment pleads not Guilty. hing. Gabriel Requaw being sworn. says that he lives two Mile back of Tarry Town, that abus. a Week ago, as he was working by his House, he saw two Men crossing the Lots ; ti ... suspect them, he went into the House, took his Gun and followed them into the Woods on haling them one Ran away, the Prisoner Stop'd, when he came up with him he aske . him where he came from. The Prisoner answered from Kingsbridge, he then took his to his father's & there searched him in presence of his Brother-found about him Se Dollars & one Shilling in Silver and Some Coppers & two Silver Spoons, also a Warrant tore in Pieces, the same now produced.
" Joseph Requaw being sworn, says that he was at his Father's when his Brother brought in the Prisoner, that he asked him where he came from. He answered, ton Long Island to New York & from thence. Said also that he belonged to Capt. Cain's Company in the Enemy's service-that he had been in .heir Service four Months.
" The Court having considered the Evidence & Defence of Prisoner, are of Opinies . that he is Guilty of the charge and Do therefore Sentence him to be hanged by the Neck. till he is Dead.
" BEN WALKER, Judge Advocate.
PHILIP CORTLANDT, Presiden !. "
In a return of the Militia on this Manor date of June 22, 1778. Capt. Gabriel Requa reports S commissioned and non-commissioned officers in his Co., and 61 men of the rank and file. Elizabeth Roqua. widow of Captain Gabriel, was appointed Administrator of his estate in 1784 ; the exact date of his death not known. Mary Requa, daughter of Capt. Gabriel, who married Elkanah Mead had son Robert G. Mead, who resides at Sing Sing.
Tamar Requa, daughter of James, married Nathan Garrison, who was a soldier of the Revolution here, and afterwards lived at Peekskill.
Lieut. Joseph Requa, in his application for a peusion date of Ang. 4, 1832, states that he was born near White Plains, Westchester County, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1758 ; that he commenced his military career carly in 1776, some time before the British took possession of New York; his Captain was William Dutcher, Col. Thomas Thomas. ' Was with Washington at the battle of White Plains. After the American army left, the inhabitants had to defend themselves, at that time Col. Ham- mond being in command. He continued on the lines until 1780, in the course of which time he commanded a Company, having been commissioned as Lieutenant by Governor Clinton. In the year 1780 he was wounded in three places and taken prisoner. Whilst a prisoner Colonel Delancey offered a Captain's Commission in the British army to be handed him in 24 hours if he would accept. The declarant replied that he was a prisoner ; whereupon Colonel Delancey told him he might speak his mind freely; then this declarant told Colonel Delancey that
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having drawn his sword in defence of his country he was determined not to lay it down until America was acknowledged to be free and inde- pendent. The Colonel replied, "Then you will be at war as long as you live !" Lieutenant Requa answered, "No, about two years will deeide the business." He then remarked that this declarant was "an aetive enemy of the British," and asked him if he would not like a parole? to which Lieutenant Requa replied, "Well!" "Whereupon he gave me my parole," and soon after Governor Clinton secured his exchange and called him into active service, by ordering him to muster the northern troops at Albany, and afterwards he was ordered to take command of a Company at Tappan, where he was under General Wash- ington's command for some time; from thence was sent to the north- ward to Albany and the Mohawk River and stationed at Fort Plain, at the time when Butler and Brandt and the British and Indians defeated Colonel Brown and killed him and a number of his men ; whereon the same day reinforcements under General Tenbroeck arriving, the enemy were attacked and a number of thein killed and they routed.
The declarant belonged to Colonel Maleohn's Regiment, but was in the action under the command of Colonel Dubois, which engage- ment took place in October, 1780. If he remembered rightly, his Company took 39 prisoners whom they lodged in the Poughkeepsie jail. He discharged his Company at King's Ferry, and the next day there was a severe snow storm, in which he traveled home to his father's. 'This declarant had the command of the American Light Horse when the British headquarters were surprised and their Commander, Major Bearmore, taken prisoner with 19 of his men; he was the first that entered the house and ordered them to surrender. This declarant liad one brother, Daniel, killed, three brothers wounded and taken prisoners, and five brothers of them were in action together at one time; his father's house, a new one, was burnt to ashes, and he (the father) being a Justice of the Peace and a Committeeman, it was said that a liberal reward was offered for his capture, but he eseaped. Then 74 years old, a resident of the town of Baltimore, Greene County, Aug. 4, 1832. Lieut. Joseph Requa's Commission is on file with his pension papers at Washington. It is said that he was very fond of talking over the events of the Revolution with his children and grandchildren, and he often spoke of the conversations which he had had with General Washing- . ton, and of the battles in which he had been engaged. It was custom- ary for his neighbors on the Fourth of July to come at sunrise in front of his house and salute him. This was done for many successive years.
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