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.

Isaac Requa, the eldest son of Capt. Glode, born 175S, was a Soldier of the Revolution, and commissioned as Adjutant of Col. Hammond's Regt., June 16, 1778, having previously been a Rieu tenant in Capt. Jonas Orser's Company. Also served under his father, Capt. Glode. The date of his being taken prisoner appears from the following account rendered against the State, which was duly audited :

The State of New York, Dr.

To Isaac Requa to his pay as Lieut, and Adjt. for the time " I was in Captivity" from Jan'y 31, 1779, until Mar. 10, 17S0, ,£244.17.9.

Henrietta Paulding Requa, widow of Adjt. Isaac Requa, son of Capt. Glode, in her application for pension says that she was married to Isaac Requa on the 12th of April, 17S4, when she was iS. That she was a daughter of William Paulding, and was born Oct. 8, 1766.

Peter Van Woermer, aged 87, said he was well acquainted with Isaac Requa and lived in the same township with him during the Revolution, one or two miles from him. That his father and the father of the said Isaac removed for a time to Collaberg, 10 or 12 miles above Tarrytown, during the Revolution, and that the two families lived near each other on opposite sides of the road.