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.

DANIEL REQUA.

Daniel Requa, the fourth and youngest son of Glode, Sr., and Janette his wife, was born on Philipse Manor, June 5, 1735, and married Maritie Martling who was born Dec. 27, 1739, date of March 24, 1759, as appears in the old Dutch Church records. He lived at Tarrytown Heights, present Pocantico Hills, his farm joining that of bis brother James to the eastward, and between the farms of James and his brother John.

The house in which Daniel Requa lived was not far from the Fountain by the roadside erected by the widow of Burbank Roberts,

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cast of the present R. R. Station, and on the southerly side of the Bedlord Road. It was burned in the winter of 1892. The property now belongs to Mr. Lewis Roberts.

The following extract from Dr. Thacher's Military' Journal dated at Crompond, March, 17S1, is of interest in this connection.

" A gentleman volunteer, by name Requaw, (Daniel) received a dangerous wound and was carried into the British lines ; I was requested by his brother to visit him, under the sanction of a flag of truce, in company with Dr. White, who resides in this vicinity. This invitation I cheerfully accepted : and Mr. Requaw (probably James Requaw,) having obtained a flag from the proper authority and procured horses, we set off in the morning, arrived .at Westchester before evening, and dressed the wounded man.