Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument Dedication at Tarrytown
Janies Requa, Jr., son of James, Sr., married Maty Teller. Was a soldier of the Revolution. Plad Frederick W. , who married Juliet Field, and had Wm. C., unmarried, lived for a time at New Orleans and died at Peekskiil ; Jas. F. , his brother, the same; Adaline F. Requa, and Louise. Frederick W. Requa lived at Yorktown and Peekskiil ; was the first President of that village. James Requa died at Tarrytown of the yellow fever.
Jane Recpia, daughter of Janies, married James Martine.
Glode Requa, son of James, married Judy Comb, daughter of Captain George Comb, and had Gilbert, George, Minard, Austin, Joseph, Leonard, and John Requa.
Elijah Requa, sou of James, married Eustacia Comb, daughter of Capt. Geo. Comb. His eldest son. Rev. Win. Comb Requa, Physician and Presbyterian Missionary, settled in Missouri in 1820, and died there in 1S86, leaving 6 sons and 3 daughters. Washington Irving, in one of his works, pays a high compliment to Rev. W111. Comb Requa,
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whose Mission, station lie visited in one of his excursions to the !
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James Harvey Requa, brother of Rev. Win. Comb Requa, uuuried Susan Archer, became Judge in Nevada, Warren Co., Missoni;, and died in 1893, in his 90th year, leaving 8 sons and 1 daughter.
Elijah Requa also had daughters Ann, Jane, Clarissa and Sarah.
Jane married Abram Remseu and had a daughter who married William H. Lester, who now resides at Dobbs Ferry. Clara married John Buckhout, and Elizabeth married David Coles. Elijah Requaks second wife, the widow of Cornelius Romer, had a daughter Margaret. They lived for a time on the Thomas Boyce farm just south of Elmsford.