John Dean of the Revolution, and had a family of six sous and three daughters. He was early appointed to the command of a Company of Militia on this Manor, and of the services so performed by him frequent mention is made in the applications for pension of those who served under him. The following accounts copied from the books of the State Treasurer show various sums paid to him and his command for such service :

^\prit 19, 1777, paid Capt. Glode Requa for his Company, . ^60.14.7.

Sept. 17, 177S, paid Capt. Glode Requa for his-Company, . . .£83. 16.

He was for one year a prisoner in the old Sugar House Prison, New York, but the date of his capture does not appear. 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 abo 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 oikof the Assessors the 1st Thursday of April, 1753, and that the ear mark of his stock was recorded April 1, 1767. It is said of Glode, Sr., that he was very Prencliy in his talk, and difficult to understand on account of his foreign speech. That he occupied the farm which afterwards descended to his eldest son, Glode, Jr., is unquestioned, and that was the early home of the. family on this Manor.