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.

It has been a disappointment, as already stated not to have been able to find anything in the records, either at New Rochelle, or Harlem, or in New York or at White Plains, in corroboration of the foregoing, hut all the records of that early date are meager, and it does not follow

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that the statement is not substantially correct; very probably Glorle and Jane were liusband and wife, and the uncle may have been a myth.

Elijah Requa, a son of James, and a grandson of Glode, Sr. , gives a different story of the emigration, making Glode, Sr. , himself the emigrant. <And it must be admitted as very good evidence.

That the father of the first Glode was Gabriel seems substantiated by the fact that the name was perpetuated in the different branches of the family. When Glode Requa, Sr., came to this Manor does not clearly appear, but probably soon after 1730, though the old Tax List of 1732 does not contain his name, and yet in the marriage record of his children, Jannitie, James, John and Daniel, in the old Dutch Church, the birth-place of all of them is given as Philipsburgh, the first named, married April 10, 1751, being the first public record of the family yet found either on this Manor or in this county.