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He drowned while in a boat crossing the Hudson with his older brother James.
THE DROWNING OF JAMES AND GLODE sons of Capt Glode Requa was a tragedy the memory of which has been perpetuated in the family. It occurred while crossing the Hudson either to or from Piermont.
One account says by the upsetting of the boat in a severe storm another story is that they were struck by lightning probably on the river opposite the old homestead.
An old double tombstone now fast crumbling to decay perpetuates the fact of the death of James and Glode Requa both on the 12th of August 1789 the age of the former being given as nineteen years six months and twenty seven days and of the latter fourteen years one month and twenty two days but the cause of their death does not there appear.
Not only is that fact well preserved in the family traditions but it is also found of record in the Clerk's office of the County of Westchester as follows: At Court of Oyer and Terminer held in November 1790 Geo Combs Esq Justice acting as Coroner returned an inquisition by him taken on the bodies of James & Requa Glode Requa Jr and Braboy a slave by which it appears that they were drowned in the Hudson by the upsetting of a canoe which they were in Aug 12 1789.
It seemed at first when the family tree showed that the above James Requa had descendants that there must be a mistake somewhere but an examination of the records of the old Dutch Church showed a James Requa married to Betsey Heleker as the tree indicated on the 28th of June prior to the 12th of August on which he was drowned. He was then in his twentieth year and early marriages were common at that period. And then more than six months after his death a son James was born to him who has many descendants.
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He drowned while in a boat crossing the Hudson with his older brother James.
THE DROWNING OF JAMES AND GLODE sons of Capt Glode Requa was a tragedy the memory of which has been perpetuated in the family. It occurred while crossing the Hudson either to or from Piermont.
One account says by the upsetting of the boat in a severe storm another story is that they were struck by lightning probably on the river opposite the old homestead.
An old double tombstone now fast crumbling to decay perpetuates the fact of the death of James and Glode Requa both on the 12th of August 1789 the age of the former being given as nineteen years six months and twenty seven days and of the latter fourteen years one month and twenty two days but the cause of their death does not there appear.
Not only is that fact well preserved in the family traditions but it is also found of record in the Clerk's office of the County of Westchester as follows: At Court of Oyer and Terminer held in November 1790 Geo Combs Esq Justice acting as Coroner returned an inquisition by him taken on the bodies of James & Requa Glode Requa Jr and Braboy a slave by which it appears that they were drowned in the Hudson by the upsetting of a canoe which they were in Aug 12 1789.
It seemed at first when the family tree showed that the above James Requa had descendants that there must be a mistake somewhere but an examination of the records of the old Dutch Church showed a James Requa married to Betsey Heleker as the tree indicated on the 28th of June prior to the 12th of August on which he was drowned. He was then in his twentieth year and early marriages were common at that period. And then more than six months after his death a son James was born to him who has many descendants.
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He drowned while in a boat crossing the Hudson with his older brother James.
THE DROWNING OF JAMES AND GLODE sons of Capt Glode Requa was a tragedy the memory of which has been perpetuated in the family. It occurred while crossing the Hudson either to or from Piermont.
One account says by the upsetting of the boat in a severe storm another story is that they were struck by lightning probably on the river opposite the old homestead.
An old double tombstone now fast crumbling to decay perpetuates the fact of the death of James and Glode Requa both on the 12th of August 1789 the age of the former being given as nineteen years six months and twenty seven days and of the latter fourteen years one month and twenty two days but the cause of their death does not there appear.
Not only is that fact well preserved in the family traditions but it is also found of record in the Clerk's office of the County of Westchester as follows: At Court of Oyer and Terminer held in November 1790 Geo Combs Esq Justice acting as Coroner returned an inquisition by him taken on the bodies of James & Requa Glode Requa Jr and Braboy a slave by which it appears that they were drowned in the Hudson by the upsetting of a canoe which they were in Aug 12 1789.
It seemed at first when the family tree showed that the above James Requa had descendants that there must be a mistake somewhere but an examination of the records of the old Dutch Church showed a James Requa married to Betsey Heleker as the tree indicated on the 28th of June prior to the 12th of August on which he was drowned. He was then in his twentieth year and early marriages were common at that period. And then more than six months after his death a son James was born to him who has many descendants.
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He drowned while in a boat crossing the Hudson with his older brother James.
THE DROWNING OF JAMES AND GLODE sons of Capt Glode Requa was a tragedy the memory of which has been perpetuated in the family. It occurred while crossing the Hudson either to or from Piermont.
One account says by the upsetting of the boat in a severe storm another story is that they were struck by lightning probably on the river opposite the old homestead.
An old double tombstone now fast crumbling to decay perpetuates the fact of the death of James and Glode Requa both on the 12th of August 1789 the age of the former being given as nineteen years six months and twenty seven days and of the latter fourteen years one month and twenty two days but the cause of their death does not there appear.
Not only is that fact well preserved in the family traditions but it is also found of record in the Clerk's office of the County of Westchester as follows: At Court of Oyer and Terminer held in November 1790 Geo Combs Esq Justice acting as Coroner returned an inquisition by him taken on the bodies of James & Requa Glode Requa Jr and Braboy a slave by which it appears that they were drowned in the Hudson by the upsetting of a canoe which they were in Aug 12 1789.
It seemed at first when the family tree showed that the above James Requa had descendants that there must be a mistake somewhere but an examination of the records of the old Dutch Church showed a James Requa married to Betsey Heleker as the tree indicated on the 28th of June prior to the 12th of August on which he was drowned. He was then in his twentieth year and early marriages were common at that period. And then more than six months after his death a son James was born to him who has many descendants.
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