George Lawrence, now 76 years of age, and residing at Hartsdale, Westchester County, whose maiden name was Adaline Requa, granddaughter of Gabriel Requa, a soldier of the Revolution, and Elizabeth Martling his wife, who was the daughter of Sergeant Isaac Martling: Her greatgrandfather was killed in front of the old Martling house, at Tarrytown. He had been to the nearby spring, still in common use in that neighborhood, fora pail of water and was just about to enter the house, when he was murderously stricken down, inhumanly slain, as is recorded upon his tombstone, "by Nathaniel Underhill," the "inhumanity" of

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the act being- aggravated by the fact that Sergeant Marti ing was unarm*. as well as one-armed, and had no opportunity to defend himself. Th! . statement is fully corroborated by the aged widow of Abraham Mart*

liug, the latter being a nephew of Sergeant Isaac, who has been from childhood familiar with all the facts of the case as handed down in the family ; and also by Miss Elizabeth Revere, who still lives in that

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vicinity, and whose grandmother, "Granny" Reed, well remembered that after he was slain lie was taken and laid in the rear room of Mr. William Paulding's residence, which had been vacated on account of the war, and that his blood ran down the doorstep, a gory spectacle. This is doubtless the true story of his death. The Nathaniel Underhill who so slew this one-armed patriot of two wars was a notorious Tory who lived on the southern' part of the Manor in the vicinity of Yonkers. It is said that Sergeant Mart ling had once caused his arrest, hence personal animosity sharpened his cruel hate. After Independence was achieved he found it ' convenient to retire to Nova Scotia, with other Tory refugees, and died there.