But contention was in vain ; their persecutors were rich and powerful anil in consequence of the refusal of the Huguenots to submit, they were all condemned to be massacred on a certain night. From certain indications they gathered that evil w.m intended toward them ; their houses were pointed out by passers by. Providentially, through the good offices of a friendly Romanist, they were warned of their danger am! nearly all escaped. On the night previous to the fated night, the faithful band muffled the wheels of their wagons and stole away. They were discovered in going and were pursued tike the Israelites to a river. Ten families got safely over, but two were overtaken and killed. The ten rescued, families found a ship about to sail for America am . took passage. Two brothers named Requa were of the number ; one with his family. the other a bachelor ; the one with a family was named Gabriel. Gabriel and his wife dii •! of a fever on the passage, leaving an only son. On arrival at New York. Gabriel's brother engaged board for one year for his nephew whose name was Glode and for a girl named Jane, whose parents had also died of the fever on shipboard. Gabriel's brother left them to go south, taking most of the money with him and intending to return for them if linked the country. He never returned, nor was he ever heard from. The son Glode afterward married Jane and lived on Muddy P>rook now called Harlem River. Afterward they moved to New Rochelle where a part of the family lived until the war with Great Britain. Some of the family moved previous to the war to what is now called Tarry town, on the North River, about 30 miles from New York, where manv of the family no"' live, although they have spread over the country as will be seen by reference to the Family Tree.