Vredenburgh, Dee. 14, 1817, and had five children, as follows: Sarah A., who died young; Edwin, b. 1821 who married Susan James, and had John James Requa, b. 1847, who married Sarah L. Barnes. He resides in Brooklyn, and is President of the Requa Manufacturing Company, Druggists' specialties, New York. Edwin Requa resides in Yorktown, on a part of the homestead of his grandfather, Abraham Requa, whose old Revolutionary musket he guards as one of the choicest of his possessions.

Clias. M. Requa, son of Solomon and Catharine M. , became much interested in the history of his ancestors, and of the Requa family, gathering up from time to time such statistics as he was able, making a careful compilation and record of the same in the shape of notes, charts and a family tree, which records preserved by his kindred are invaluable and formed the basis of these interesting sketches of the Requa family.

James E. Requa, a son of Solomon, born 1832, went to California and now resides at Sonora.

Edmund, son of Abraham Requa and Bethia Hopkins, his wife, married first, Mary Bedell, and second Mary Conkling, by whom he had Anna M., who married Rev. Edmund Lewis, and died at Hudson, N. Y., 1892, leaving two sons, George A., and James H. Amos C. Requa, son of Edmund and Mary Conkling his wife, was born at Yorktown, Oct. 10, 1839, and married Mary E. Dayton of Peekskill, who was born near Kenosha, AYis. Resided on a part of the old homestead for several years, and now at Peekskill. Is a lay preacher of the Methodist Church. Is much interested in the Requa family history.