Willsea, and removed to Kendall, Orleans County.

Isaac L. Rjeoua.

HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

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Capt. Jacob Requa, a son of Samuel, married Eliza Lawrence daughter of Isaac, and had Maria, who married Isaac F. Van Wart, a grandson of Isaac Van Wart the Captor, and had a son Jacob and two daughters ; John Requa, who went to California 1850, and died at San Francisco about thirty years ago and left a son, John Milton Requa.

Jacob, a son, married Maria L. Lawrence and lived and died in New York city ; left two daughters who are married and live in California, and a son, Frank C. Requa, who is Clerk of the Tarrytowu Propeller.

Capt. Samuel Requa, born 1826, married Sarah Brundage, daughter of Ightman Brundage, and lias had three sons, Millard, Charles and Harry Requa, all of whom are deceased, and two daughters, of whom only Emma, wife of Walter Connell survives. Millard left a daughter Mabel, who lives with her grandparents, and a widow, Phebe Minnerly Requa. Harry, son of Capt. Samuel, married Hattie Williams of Bedford, and had Harry Merrill, Samuel Irwin, Mary F., Willard Fiske, and James Requa.

Capt. Samuel Requa was with his father as a boy on boats which carried freight and passengers between Tarrytowu and New York. In 1855 he commenced business for himself, and continued running the James Benedict as a market boat until he bought the Tarrytowu Propeller, in 1866, and continued to run that boat, most of the time in company with Capt. Albert Lewis, until he sold his interest in 1892. Capt. Samuel has retired from business, but at the village election in 1894 was unanimously chosen as one of the Board of Water Commissioners of Tarrytowu, and has since been elected Treasurer of the Board. He is also a Trustee and Treasurer of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Association, a Trustee and Treasurer of the Andre Capture Monument Association, and a member of the New York Sons of the Revolution.