He continued on the lines until 1780, in the course of which time he commanded a Company, having been commissioned as Lieutenant by Governor Clinton. In the year 1780 he was wounded in three places and taken prisoner. Whilst a prisoner Colonel Delancey offered a Captain's Commission in the British army to he handed him in 24 hours if he would accept. The declarant replied! that he was a prisoner; whereupon Colonel Delancey told him he might speak his mind freely; then this declarant told Colonel Delancey that

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having drawn his sword in defence of his country he was determined not to lay it down until America was acknowledged to be free and independent. The Colonel replied, "Then you will be at war as long as you live ! " Lieutenant Requa answered, "No, about two years will decide the business. " He then remarked that this declarant was "an active enemy of the British," and asked him if he would not like a parole? to which Lieutenant Requa replied, " Well !" " \\ hereupon he gave me my parole," and soon after Governor Clinton secured his exchange and called him into active service, by ordering him to muster the northern troops at Albany, and afterwards he was ordered to take command of a Company at Tappan, where he was under General Washington's command for some time ; from thence was sent to the northward to Albany and the Mohawk River and stationed at Fort Plain, at the time when Butler and Brandt and the British and Indians defeated Colonel Brown and killed him and a number of his men; whereon the same day reinforcements under General Tenbroeck arriving, the enemy were attacked and a number of them killed and* they routed.