Amos C. Requa, of Peekskill :

" While Abraham Requa was never taken in battle, his heart was captured in a march through a part of Dutchess County, now Put-

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uain. Bethia Hopkins, daughter of Capt. Solomon Hopkins, of Fredericksburg, now Carmel, was the fair maiden who made the capture. ' Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. ' They were married Oct. iS, 1782.

"After the war, Abraham bought one-half of his father's farm at Tarrytown Heights, and built on the Bedford Road a house, probably the one burned in the winter of 1892 on the Lewis Roberts' property. In the spring of 1794 he moved his family in wagons to Fishkill, Dutchess Co., where he bought a farm.

"I11 Dec., 1794, he bought a farm of 100 acres in the suburbs of Peekskill. He afterwards sold that farm to Abraham Depew, grandfather of Hon. Cliauncev M. Depew, and bought the farm in Yorktown on which Major Andre slept the night before his capture. There he passed the remainder of his days. No one delighted more than he in rehearsing stories of the war, and no one had a more strict regard for truth. His death, at the age of 84 years, was tragic. Preferring to draw his pension in person and sign with his own hand, he prepared to go to Peekskill, four miles away. In order to make his ride more comfortable, his large arm-chair was set in the wagon and he was placed in it. Unfortunately- the chair was not tied ; the sudden starting of the horses tilted the chair, and he fell to the ground. His neck was broken.. An old man full of days and honors. He sleeps in the old burying ground of the Yorktown Presbyterian Church at Crompond, near the remains of his gallant companions in arms, Col.