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Bergen County Historical Society : Wreath Laying

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Hackensack NJ, Reverend Everritt Zabriskie joins the Bergen County Historical Society remembering General Enoch Poor and other American Revolutionary soldiers buried here.

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Memorial Day, Monday, May 31 with Bergen County Historical Society

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Hackensack NJ, Bergen County Historical Society; Each year we honor the veterans of all wars with a wreath laying at the grave of General Enoch Poor in the burial ground of the First Dutch Reformed Church on the Green.

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Bergen County Historical Society Wreath laying at the Hackensack Church on the Green

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Historian Kevin Wright posted this in 2005

Hackensack NJ, May 27, 2019: In commemoration of the 239th anniversary of the death of General Enoch Poor, of New Hampshire, during the Steenrapie Encampment, the Bergen County Historical Society is laying a floral wreath upon his grave in the Hackensack Church on the Green.

James Thacher, a Surgeon in the Continental army, described General Poor’s death and funeral with the following entry in his Military Journal:

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