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Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument Dedication at Tarrytown

Raymond, Marcius D., editor and publisher. Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument Dedication, at Tarrytown, N.Y., October 19th, 1894. Tarrytown, NY, 1894. 272 words

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.

Elijah Requa was an Elder in the Second Reformed Church. Tarrytown, and a very likely man.

Ann Requa, daughter of Elijah, married first James Green, qr.-l second, David Chichester Ketclium, by whom was a son, Major John B. Ketchum, Cor. Sec'y of the U. S. Army Aid Association, of New York.

John Requa, a private in Capt. Gabriel Requa' s. Company, being out on a scout at North Castle, on the 7th of January, 1:781, received a wound in his leg from a musket ball, and at the time of his making application for a pension, 1786, lie was 23 years of age. Then resided in Philipsburgh. Doubtless the son of James.

Isaac Requa, youngest sou of James, born Jan'y 31, 1779, married Elizabeth Clements, and lived at Tarrytown.

A Benjamin Requa, grandson of James Requa, Esq., resides at El Paso, Texas.

The old house still standing on a part of the Jas. Requa farm, at present Pocantico Hills, and now owned by the Rev. Geo. Rockwell, is not the original Jas. Requa house, that having been burnt during the Revolution.