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."

Abraham Requa, in his application for a pension dated Dec. 4, 1832, says that he entered the service May, 1776, as a private in Capt. William Datallers Company, Daniel Martling and Gershom Sherwood being the Lieutenants, for the term of six months. That soon after

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said Company was enlisted it was marched to King's Bridge, and y. engaged in the building of Fort Independence ; that he thinks the Company was attached to Col. Thomas Thomas' Regiment ; that lie e- y tinned there with that Company until the British had taken New Y< : ■ and Tort Independence was evacuated, and then retreated from them to White Plains, where they were stationed a little to the north of th. ■ place and on the west side of Morton's Mill Pond, and continued them until after the battle of White Plains ; that the Regiment was then ordered to Pine's Bridge, and from thence to Peekskill, and that afnthe greater part of Washington's army had crossed the North Rivt : their Regiment was ordered to Sing Sing, and continued there until tin expiration of their term of enlistment.