Requa, a grandson of Abraham and great-grandson of Daniel Requa. who spent much of time in making researches concerning the family and who gathered a large amount of statistics in the shape of family trees and other interesting data, left the following memorandum in regard to the original emigration and emigrants of that name :

They came from La Rochelle, France, about 1690. They were H ugucnois,and persecuted by the Romish Church and the state authorities. Gabriel's and Jane's parents came in the same ship, but many died, as it was very sickly with the fever, and Gabriel and Jane's parents died just before they came off Sandy Hook, NT. York. Gabriel and Jane settled at New Rochelle, N. Y., on Muddy brook. They had much money as they

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were a wealthy family in France. They could not collect but a small part of :t as , authorities seized and sold all they could get hold of, of lands around La Rochelle and . the city ; but notwithstanding this they collected a considerable amount. My Gram:'... ther (Abraham) informed me that Gabriel had a brother on board the same ship, as he : . been told by the oldest in the family and when Gabriel and James' parents were dead, ; - having an equal share with his brother's money he took charge ol it and James' aa arrived in New York, and purchased what necessaries they were in want of, clothing, ,y< procuring and paid board for them, (it is said by my grandfather that G tbriel was a ioor twelve years old and Jane about the same age when they came here) several ye, at', ami took the amount of each's money, and went south with the intention of returning, but was never heard of since.