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He died in 1841, and was buried in the family burial ground, which is situated on a beautiful rise of ground overlooking the Hudson.
Ansel, son of William and grandson of Joseph, has occupied publie positions in his native county, of Albany, having been at one time, County Clerk.
Henry Mead Requa, son of Joseph, born in 1799, at Tarrytown, was a inereliant for many years at Albany. He died in 1870, in New York City, where he then resided. His son, Leonard F. Requa, whose picture appears herewith, is at the head of The Safety Insulated Wire & Cable Company, New York City, the largest establishment of its kind in the United States. Leonard F. Requa married Sarah White, a descendant of the Puritans. Has a son, Leonard F., Jr. Their eldest son, Howard Mead Requa, died October Ist, 1893. Although but 19 years of age he had already become noted as an Electrician.
Henry M. Requa's daughter, Catherine, has been Principal of the 12th Street School, New York City, for many years.
James Requa, son of Joseph, had a daughter Mary Eliza, who married Henry Sanger, of Howard, Sanger & Co., and was so the aneestor of Col. Win. Cary Sanger, of Sangerfield, N. Y. Col. Sanger was elected Meniber of Assembly from Oneida Co., in November, 189.4.
The children of Lient. Josephi Requa ereditably sustained the character and integrity of their parents. James, Gerrit, Isaae and Henry M., were Wholesale Grocery Merchants in Albany ; Gilbert and William were farmers. Jeannette, a daughter of Lient. Joseph, married Bela Squire, late of Tarrytown ; Mary, another daughter, married Geo. Wood and had son G. L. Wood of Tarrytown.
William Requa, son of James Requa, was born at Tarrytown, or rather on that part of Philipse Manor, afterwards ealled Tarrytown Heights, and now Pocantico Hills, July 24, 1771; married Mary Hunt. They had a son, Thomas Hunt Requa, who removed to Esopus, Ulster, Co., and there married Harriet Smith. Thomas Huit Regna died at Kingston, 1870. They had three children. William H., who was killed by an accident in 1871, at Boston, leaving two children, both living in Albany. Smith Requa, son Thos. H., resides at Middle- burgh, N. Y. Has four children : William A., Alice May, Albeit E ... and Jennie L. Chas. W. Requa, another son of Thos. H., resides in Chicago, and has for 18 years been a member of the Board of Trade of of that eity. He married Catharine Bruyn, of Ulster Co., and has two sons, Win. Bruyn and Chas. Howard Regna in the Commission busi- ness, Chicago, under the firm name of Requa Bros.
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LEONARD F. REQUA.
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Alexander Requa, son of William and brother of Thos. H., lived and died at Tarrytown, unmarried. His sister Caroline, also unmar- ried, died at Middleburgh, N. Y., Nov. 7, ISSS, in her 89th year. Win. Requa died at Tarrytown, March 27, 1863, in his 94th year. Mary his wife, died Ang. 7th, 1846.
William Requa was a Member of the Assembly of this State in 1815-16-18 and 1819, and in 1820-1, was County Clerk of Westchester County. I11 1828-9 was one of the Superintendents of the County Als House, and in 1815 he had been Supervisor of Mt. Pleasant. He was a prominent Methodist, and aided in the organization of Asbury M. E. Church, Tarrytown. Gave the site for the original edifice.
Danicl Requa, son of James, gave his life for his country, hay- ing been, as stated by his brother Elijah, "slain on the field," at 19 years of age. Said to have been killed at Fort Independence.
John Requa, son of James, was a soldier of the Revolution. He married Mary Knapp, and had Frances, who married Jacob Van Wart, of Tarrytown ; Hannah, born 1785, who married John Bloomfield, and lived in New Jersey ; Huldah, married John Huyler, and lived in New York; Sarah, who married Henry Graham; Rebecca, who married John Reed and lived at Tarrytown ; James B., who married Hclen Maxwell, sister of Hugh Maxwell, Collector, of New York City ; Jane A., who inarricd George Marsh ; Elizabeth Ann, who married John Jackson Ruton, and Adaline Requa, who married Alexander Gordon and lived in New York.
Jamies Requa, Jr., son of James, Sr., married Mary Teller. Was a soldier of the Revolution. Had Frederick W., who married Juliet Field, and had Wm. C., unmarried, lived for a time at New Orleans and died at Peekskill; Jas. F., his brother, the same; Adaline F. Requa, and Louise. Frederick W. Requa lived at Yorktown and Peekskill ; was the first President of that village. James Requa died at Tarrytown of the yellow fever.
Jane Requa, daughter of James, married James Martine.
Glode Requa, son of James, married Judy Comb, daughter of Captain George Comb, and had Gilbert, George, Minard, Austin, Joseph, Leonard, and John Requa.
Elijah Requa, son of James, married Eustacia Comb, daughter of Capt. Geo. Comb. His eldest son, Rev. Win. Comb Requa, Physi- cian and Presbyterian Missionary, settled in Missouri in 1820, and died there in 1886, leaving 6 sons and 3 daughters. Washington Irving, in one of his works, pays a high compliment to Rev. Win. Comb Requa,
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whose Mission station he visited in one of his excursions to the 1 ... West.
James Harvey Requa, brother of Rev. Win. Comb Requa, ma ?. ricd Susan Archer, became Judge in Nevada, Warren Co., Missouri, and dicd in 1893, in his goth year, leaving 8 sons and I daughter.
Elijah Requa also had daughters Anu, Jane, Clarissa and Sarah.
Jane married Abram Remsen and had a daughter who married William H. Lester, who now resides at Dobbs Ferry. Clara married John Buckhout, and Elizabeth married David Coles. Elijah Requa's second wife, the widow of Cornelius Romer, had a daughter Margaret. They lived for a time on the Thomas Boyce farm just south of Elmsford.
Elijah Requa was an Elder in the Second Reformed Church, Tarrytown, and a very likely man.
Ann Requa, daughter of Elijah, married first James Green, and second, David Chichester Ketchum, by whom was a son, Major John B. Ketchum, Cor. Sec'y of the U. S. Army Aid Association, of New York :.
John Requa, a private in Capt. Gabriel Requa's Company, being out on a scout at North Castle, on the 7th of January, 1781, received a wound in his leg from a musket ball, and at the time of his making application for a pension, 1786, he was 23 years of age. Thien resided in Philipsburgh. Doubtless the son of James.
Isaac Requa, youngest son of James, born Jant'y 31, 1779, mar- ried Elizabeth Clements, and lived at Tarrytown.
A Benjamin Requa, grandson of James Requa, Esq., resides at El Paso, Texas.
The old house still standing on a part of the Jas. Requa farm, at present Pocantico Hills, and now owned by the Rev. Geo. Rockwell. is not the original Jas. Requa house, that having been burnt during the Revolution.
DANIEL REQUA.
Daniel Requa, the fourth and youngest son of Glode, Sr., and Janette his wife, was born on Philipse Manor, June 5, 1735, and mar- ried Maritie Martling who was born Dec. 27, 1739, date of March 24, 1759, as appears in the old Dutchi Church records. He lived at Tarry- town Heights, present Pocantico Hills, his fann joining that of his brother James to the eastward, and between the farms of James and his brother John.
The house in which Daniel Requa lived was not far from the Fountain by the roadside erected by the widow of Burbank Roberts,
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east of the present R. R. Station, and on the southerly side of the Bed- ford Road. It was burned in the winter of 1892. The property 110w belongs to Mr. Lewis Roberts.
The following extract from Dr. Thacher's Military Journal dated at Crompond, March, 1781, is of interest in this connection.
" A gentleman volunteer, by name Requaw, (Daniel) received a dangerous wound and was carried into the British lines ; I was requested by his brother to visit him, under the sanction of a flag of trure, in company with Dr. White, who resides in this vicinity. This invitation I cheerfully accepted ; and Mr. Requaw (probably James Requaw, ) hav- ing obtained a flag from the proper authority and procured horses, we set off in the morning, arrived at Westchester before evening, and dressed the wounded man. We passed the night at Mrs. Bartow's, mother-in-law of Dr. W. She has remained at her farm between the lines during the war, and being friendly to our interest, has received much abusive treatment from the royalists.
The next day we visited our patient again, paid the necessary attention and repaired to a tavern, where I was gratified with an interview with the much famed Coloncl De Lancey, who commands the Refugee Corps. He conducted with much civility, and having a public dinner prepared, at the tavern, he invited us to dine with him and his officers. After dinner, Colonel De Lancey furnished us with a permit to return with our flag ; we rode ten miles, and took lodgings in a private housc. Here we were informed that six of our men, having taken from the refugees thirty head of cattle were overtaken by forty of De Lancey's corps and were all killed but one, and the cattle, re taken. In the morning breakfasted with a friendly Quaker family, in whose house was one of our men who had been wounded when four others were killed ; we dressed his wounds, which were numerous and dangerous. In another house we saw four dead bodies, mangled in a most inhuman manner by the refugees, and among them, one groaning under five wounds on his head, two of them quite through the skull bone with a broad-sword. This man was capable of giving us an account of the murder of his four companions. They surrendered and begged for life, but their entrcaties were disre- garded, and the swords of their cruel foes were plunged into their bodies so long as signs of life remained. We found many friends io our cause, who reside on their farms , between the lines of the twoarmies, whose situation is truly deplorable, being continually exposed to the ravages of the tories, horse thieves, and cow boys. who rob and plunder them without mercy, and the personal abuse and punishments which they inflict is almost incredible."
Whether the said Danicl Requa to whom he refers was Daniel the sou of James, who was killed dining the Revolution, or Daniel the brother of James, it cannot be positively stated but probably the latter, as he speaks of him as a gentleman, while the former was only a youth of 19, when he was slain.
'The following shows that Daniel, was a prisoner, and probably taken as above stated:
"Daniel Requa, a man of delicate constitution, was scized as a prominent rebel and confined in the Sugar House, New York, where he remained until his son Abraham, it is said, captured a British officer who was taken in exchange for the father. Only for the delicacies fur- nished him by his friends, Daniel would have perished in prison."
. Abraham Requa, in his application for a pension dated Dec. 4, 1832, says that hic entered the service May, 1776, as a private in Capt. William Dutcher's Company, Daniel Martling and Gershom Sherwood being the Lieutenants, for the term of six months, That soon after
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said Company was enlisted it was marched to King's Bridge, and w engaged in the building of Fort Independence ; that he thinks the Com. pany was attached to Col. Thomas Thomas' Regiment ; that he con- tinted there with that Company until the British had taken New Yor. and Fort Independence was evacuated, and then retreated from the !!! to White Plains, where they were stationed a little to the north of that. place and on the west side of Morton's Mill Pond, and continued thete until after the battle of White Plains ; that the Regiment was then ordered to Pine's Bridge, and from thence to Peekskill, and that afte: the greater part of Washington's aniny had erossed the North Rive : their Regiment was ordered to Sing Sing, and continued there until the expiration of their term of enlistment. That in the beginning of Decent- ber, 1776, the American troops having been withdrawn from the vicinity of Tarrytown, the Whig inhabitants were exposed to the plundering depredations of the enemy. Afterwards served with about sixty other of the inhabitants at the houses of Peter and Cornelius Van Tassel on the Saw Mill River Road under Captain Sybert Aeker. Also under Captain Daniel Williams, Lieut. Abraham Van Wart, and Lieut. Heddy. in 1778, at Young's House, and vicinity. Then was in a foot Company commanded by Lieut. Richard Peacock. That the said Abraham Requa was one of the Company of volunteers who made an attack on the Refugees at Morrisania in March, 1782, when they captured a Lieutenant and some thirty prisoners; that they were pursued in their retreat about twenty-eight miles, and lost eight or ten men in killed and wounded ; that Abraham Dyckman, one of the most brave and useful men among the Westchester Guides was mortally wounded during thei: said retreat, though they brought off all of their prisoners and a 111111- ber of horses taken from the Refugees. Was born on Philipse Manor. in the present town of Mt. Pleasant, in 1759, and resided there during the continuance of the Revolutionary war. Was at the Youngs House engagement.
Application endorsed by Nicholas Banker, who states that he enlisted in Capt. Dutcher's Company in June, 1776.
Abraham Requa died Nov. I, 1843, and his widow, Bethia Hopkins Requa, applied for a renewal of the pension June 17, 1844. States that they were married Oet. 18, 1782.
The following interesting sketeli of Abraham Requa is furnished by his grandson, Rev. Amos C. Requa, of Peekskill :
" While Abraham Requa was never taken in battle, his heart was captured in a march through a part of Dutchess County, now Put-
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Bethia Hopkins, daughter of Capt. Solomon Hopkins, of Fredericksburg, now Carmel, was the fair maiden who made the eap- ture. 'Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.', They were married Oct. IS, 1782.
"After the war, Abraham bought one-half of his father's farm at Tarrytown Heights, and built on the Bedford Road a house, probably the one burned in the winter of 1892 on the Lewis Roberts' property. In the spring of 1794 he moved his family in wagons to Fishkill, Dutehess Co., where he bought a farmi.
"In Dee., 1794, he bought a farm of 100 acres in the suburbs of Peekskill. He afterwards sold that farm to Abraham Depew, grand- father of Hon. Chauneey M. Depew, and bought the farm in Yorktown on which Major Andre slept the night before his capture. There he passed the remainder of his days. No one delighted more than he in rehearsing stories of the war, and no one had a more strict regard for truth. His death, at the age of 84 years, was tragic. Preferring to draw his pension in person and sign with his own hand, he prepared to go to Peekskill, four miles away. In order to make his ride more eom- fortable, his large arm-ehair was set in the wagon and he was placed in it. Unfortunately the chair was not tied; the sudden starting of the horses tilted the chair, and he fell to the ground. His neck was broken .. An old man full of days and honors. He sleeps in the old burying ground of the Yorktown Presbyterian Church at Crompond, near the remains of his gallant companions in arms, Col. Green and Major Flagg.
"There is a tradition in the family that on the morning of Sept. 23d, 1780, Mrs. Daniel Regna, then living on the Bedford Road, notieed « a strange horseman passing by. That horseman was Andre, who, a little later, was captured by the trio of Militia-men, Paulding, Williams and Van Wart."
Jane Requa, daughter of Abraham, born Nov. 4, 1761, married Charles Craft and removed to Ellenville, Ulster Co. She left deseend- ants, among whom are the widow of James Denike, of Peekskill. John, son of Abraham, married Sarah Kipp, and removed to New Paltz, Ulster Co. Had six children: Frank Leslie Requa, Sr., and Frank Leslie, Jr., of New York are of his descendants.
. James Requa, son of Daniel, married Ellen Deyo, and lived in . New York City. Had eight children. Mary Requa, daughter of Dan- iel and Mary Martling his wife, married Walter Carpenter, and lived at Shrub Oak. Margaret, daughter of Daniel, married Thomas Hyndman,
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and removed to the West. Daniel, Jr., went from home when a young man and was never heard from.
Abraham Requa and Bethia Hopkins, his wife, had eight ehild- ren as follows :
' Daniel, born at Tarrytown, Ang. 27, 1784, married Phebe Lec. daughter of Judge Elijah Lee, of Yorktown, and had nine children : Abraham, married Jane Strang, and had a daughter Philena, who mar- ried Reuben Barger of Mahopac Falls. Ann Eliza, daughter of Daniel, married Edmund Foster, of South East, and had son Daniel R. Foster, who is pastor of the Bethany Presbyterian Church, at Trenton, New Jersey. Sarah A., daughter of Daniel, married Jeremiah H. Seely, and had two children, both deceased, and also her husband. Mrs. Seely now makes her home with Rev. and Mrs. Amos C. Requa, at Peekskill. Lewis B. Requa, son of Daniel and Phebe, born Nov. 9, 1815, married Harriet Randall, and removed to Rock Island, Ill. Had Edward Haskel, who married Sarah J. Powers, lives in Norfork, Nebraska, and has six children. Bethiah, daughter of Daniel and Phebe Lee Requa, born 1818, married Amos Fuller of Peekskill, since deceased. Both she and her sister Julia F., now occupy beautiful residences near that village.
Isaae, son of Daniel and Phebe, b. 1825, matried first Ellen Crosby, by whom he had Arthur Regna, who is pastor of the Presby- terian Church at Noroton, Conn. ; Isaae married second, Matilda Knapp, by whom he had Frank, who married Hattie Moore and has two children -- lives at Peekskill ; also Mary, who is unmarried and lives at Peeks. kill ; Julia Franees, youngest daughter of Daniel and Phebe Lee Requa, married first, Geo. Dayton, a prominent eitizen of Peekskill, and sec- ond, Theo. P. Nichols, of New York.
Elijah Lec Reqna, son of Daniel and Phebe Lee Regua, married « . Mrs. Mary A. Chillingworth, and had eight children. Daniel Lee, sou of Elijah, married Kirkie Hungerford and resides at Los Angeles, Cali- fornia. . Mary Augusta, the eldest daughter of Elijah, is a physician and resides with her widowed mother in New York City. Emma Requa is prominent as a teacher in New York City. Ella Lee Requa is un- married and resides with her mother in New York City. Louis Fred- erick married Mary Emily Park, and resides in New York City. Has a son Chas. Park Requa. Robert Russell Requa, the youngest surviv- ing son, is a teacher in New York.
Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham, born Oct. 7, 1787, at Tarry- town, married Henry Strang of Yorktown, and had William, and Fowler, and Abraham, and Amanda, and Edmund.
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Ann Requa, another daughter, b. Tarrytown, Oct. 6, 1789, married Samuel Fowler of Yorktown, and left a daughter Ann, who married Egbert S. Fowler.
Solomon Requa, son of Abraham, b. Tarrytown, Nov. 30, 1793, married Catharine M. Vredenburgh, Dec. 14, 1817, and had five ehild- ren, as follows : Sarah A., who died young; Edwin, b. 1821 who married Susan James, and had John James Requa, b. 1847, who mar- ried Sarah L. Barnes. He resides in Brooklyn, and is President of the Requa Manufacturing Company, Druggists' specialties, New York. Edwin Requa resides in Yorktown, on a part of the homestead of his grandfather, Abraham Requa, whose old Revolutionary musket he guards as one of the choicest of his possessions.
Chas. M. Requa, son of Solomon and Catharine M., became much interested in the history of his ancestors, and of the Requa family, gathering up from time to time such statistics as he was able, making a careful compilation and record of the same in the shape of notes, eliarts and a family tree, which records preserved by his kindred are invaluable and formed the basis of these interesting sketches of the Requa family.
James E. Requa, a son of Solomon, born 1832, went to California and now resides at Sonora.
Edmund, son of Abraham Requa and Bethia Hopkins, his . wife, married first, Mary Bedell, and second Mary Conkling, by whom he had Anna M., who married Rev. Edmund Lewis, and died at Hud- son, N. Y., 1892, leaving two sons, George A., and James H. Amos C. Requa, son of Edmund and Mary Conkling his wife, was born at Yorktown, Oct. 10, 1839, and married Mary E. Dayton of Peekskill, who was born near Kenosha, Wis. Resided on a part of the old home- stead for several years, and now at Peekskill. Is a lay preacher of the Methodist Church. Is mueh interested in the Requa family history.
Amny Requa, the youngest child of Abraham Requa, married Lewis Purdy, who was for fifty years Postmaster at Shrub Oaks.
Abraham Requa was Supervisor of the town of Yorktown, in ISII, and held other town offices. A highly respected and worthy citizen.
Daniel Requa died in October, 1803, his wife. Mary Martling, . having died the 23d of March, 1800.
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JOHN REQUA.
Joliu Requa, the third son of Glode Requa, Sr., and Janette h :. wife, married Aeltie Acker, daughter of Abraham and granddaughter of Wolfert Acker, she being therefore a niece of her sister-in-law. Maritie, wife of James Requa, Esq., May 15, 1758, according to the- old Dutch Church records, it being stated in connection therewith the both were born in Philipsburgh.
He had evidently lived on a farmi adjoining to and east of his brother Daniel at Tarrytown Heights, now Pocantico Hills, prior to the Revolution, but he took title from the Commissioners of Forfeiture to a farm about one mile west of Sing Sing.
The Muster Roll of men raised for Col. Sam'l Drake's Regt. date of July, 1780, shows the following: "John Requaw, Philipse Manor, Blacksmith ; complexion dark ; eyes blue; hair, dark brown ; haith (height, ) 5 ft. 9."
John Requa died May 28, 1812, aged So years, 9 mos. and 24 days. Ilis wife died in 1812, aged 78 years. Her name appears as Olive on the tombstone. They left no descendants.
Jannitie Requa, daughter of Glode, Sr., and Janette his wife, married Jacob Stymets, Apr. 10, 1751, as appears on the old Dutch Church records.
Maritie, daughter of Glode, Sr., married a Mr. McFarlin, of Farden. The Gabriel and James McFarden whose names appear on the muster roll of Capt. Gabriel Requa's Company, were probably their sons.
Margaret, daughter of Glode, Sr., married Samuel Husted of Hempstead, L. I.
Susannah, the other and youngest daughter of Glode Requa, S ... married Wolfert Acker, and removed to Newburgh.
Justice James Requa was one of the original members of the Baptist Church of Sing Sing, and was one of the Deacons elected at its organization Nov. 12, 1790. His brother John was probably also a member of that Church, as appears by a bequest in his will.
The story of the Requa family might well have been further ex- teuded, and in itself would make an interesting volume of history.
The Paulding Family. .
The first local mention of this family, which became so promi- nent in this vicinity, is found in Riker's Harlem : "Joost Paulding married Catherina Duyts, 16SS. Came from Cassant, Holland, and lived in Westchester Co." Was for a time at Eastchester and came from there to Philipse Manor. While living here he married second, Sophie, widow of Theunis Krankheit, date of 1709. The following appears in records of the old Dutch Church : "Joost Palding expressed a desire to remove to New York with his family and was asked to submit his account to the Consistory," date of August, 1710. Had probably been its Treasurer. It does not appear that he ever returned. The names of Joseph and Abram Palding appear in the census of New York city in 1737 ; probably sons of Joost. Joseph, who was born 1706, came to this manor to reside prior to 1755, for in a census of the north part of Philipsburgh of that year his name appears as the owner of two slaves. Probably was then living at what was long known as the Paulding place, about two miles east of Tarrytown.
William Paulding, the son of Joost, or Joseph .Paulding and Susanna White his wife, bapt. at New York, Dec. 7, 1735, was doubt- less a grandson of the first mentioned Joost. The following record of his family copied from the original, contains interesting data :
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WILLIAM PAULDING and CATHARINE OGDEN wedded, July 25, 1762, at New York.
CATHARINE, the daughter of born Friday, June 1, 1764, at New York.
HENRIETTA, the daughter of born Thursday, Oct. 9, 1766, at New York.
JULIA, the daughter of born Wednesday, Aug. 10, 1768, at Philipsburgh. WILLIAM, son of born Saturday, March 7, 1770, at Philipsburgh. JOSEPH, son of born Friday, Feb. 20, 1722, at Philipsburgh. SUSANNAH, the daughter of born Monday, Feb. 28, 1774.
NATHANIEL, the son of born Saturday, May 18, 1776.
JAMES KIRKE, the son of born Saturday, Aug. 22, 1778, at Great Nine Partners. EUPHEMIA, the daughter of born Monday, July 9, 17SI, at Great Nine Partners. SUSAN took her departure from New York the 22d day of May in the year of our Lord 1797.
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