They then pushed for the house of James Requa, where a guard was kept during most of the war, which they surprised, but the whole party made their escape except one, who was killed, and whose name was John Van Tassel." It will be noticed that this is a very different account of the affair from that given in Bolton's History, and then he locates it at Capt. Glode Requa's, while Capt. John Romer says that the attack was made at that time upon the house of James Requa, which was on the Bedford road. And then Capt. Romer gives a different version and place of the killing of Polly or Katrina Buckhout. He says she was "killed by a Yager rifleman belonging to a party under Kmerick who were patrolling on the west side of the Saw Mill River. She imprudently appeared at the door of the house with a man's hat on, when two hostile parties were near each other, and was killed by mistake for an enemy. The Yager fired without orders, and Emerick made apology, being much mortified at the occurrence. The house where this occurred was near to and a little above the Saw Mill River Church."

Anne Martling applied to the State for a pension on account of "the death of my late husband, Sergt. Isaac Martling, who was slain May 26, 1779," and it was duly granted. The name Martling, formerly so prominent here, has entirely disappeared from this vicinity.

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