HON. WILLIAM REQUA. Page
HON. WILLIAM REQUA. Page 38. THE FAMILY OF REQUA 1678- 1898. COAT PILED BY REV. AMOS C. REQUA, PEEKSKILL, N. Y. 1 898. COPYRIGHT, 1898, AMOS C. REQUA. DEDICATION. TO ALL WHO BEAR THE HONORED NAME OF REQUA, THESE PAGES ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE COMPILER, AMOS C. REQUA. " Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.- PREFACE. There is a tradition, with apparent ground of fact, that the identical name, REQUA, existed in France. Mr. J. M. Requa, of New York, says : that iN conversing with scholars, they have frequently spoken of finding the name, Requa, in French writings. Col. Henry Rutgers, of Rutgers Place, New York, said: that the Requa Family had large possessions in Paris, which he thought might be recovered. Dr. Josephus Requa, of Rochester, N. Y., recently met a young lady of that place, named Begun, not of the Requa Family in this country, whose father, Alexander Requa, came from France. To verify the foregoing tradition would require an investigation of French records, which, for the present at least, must be left for other hands. A. C. R. Peekskill, N. Y., March 28, 1898. OFFICIAL ORDER. Adjutant Begin', is to take command of a Company of Rangers consisting of 50 men of the Regiment of Militia commanded by Lieut. Col. Hammond, to continue in ser- vice for two months, unless sooner discharged, for the protection of the inhabitants against small parties of the common enemy, plunderers and freebooters, who infest the settlements near the lines in the County. Jonathan Knapp and Richard Peacock to be Lieutenants of the said Company, which with Col.
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