In the morning breakfasted with a friendly Quaker family, in whose house was one of our men who had been wounded when four others were killed ; we dressed his wounds, which were numerous and dangerous. In another house we saw four dead bodies, mangled in a most inhuman man-ner by the refugees, and among them, one groaning under five wounds on his head, two of them quite through the skull bone with a broad-sword. This man was capable of giving us an account of the murder of his four companions. They surrendered and begged for life, but their entreaties were disregarded, and the swords of their cruel foes were plunged into their bodies so long as signs of life remained. We found many friends to our cause, who reside on their farms between the lines of the two armies, whose situation is truly deplorable, being continually exposed to the ravages, of the tories, horse thieves, and cow hoys, who rob and plunder them without mercy, and the personal abuse and punishments which they inflict is almost incredible."

Whether the said Daniel Recjua to whom he refers was Daniel the son of James, who was killed during the Revolution, or Daniel the brother of James, it cannot be positively stated but probably the latter, as he speaks of him as a gentleman, while the former was only a youth of 19, when he was stain.

The following shows that Daniel, was a prisoner, and probably taken as above stated:

"Daniel Requa, a man of delicate constitution, was seized as a prominent rebel and confined in the Sugar House, New York, where he remained until his son Abraham, it is said, captured a British officer who was taken in exchange for the father. Only for the delicacies furnished him by his friends, Daniel would have perished in prison."