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Ridgewood Resident Says, “The Schedler house would be torn down” 

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the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, not really sure what to make of this , but we thought we would publish it. Continue reading Ridgewood Resident Says, “The Schedler house would be torn down” 

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Bergen County Historical Society , “In time of war, often things are not as they appear, and there is our lead-in for today’s tale from the Revolutionary War…”

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Bergen County Historical Society
Good Day Bergen County! To all appearances, it is a beautiful day outside. The sun is shining and green is finally the color that has bloomed. Not all things are as they appear though, as the temperature is still brisk and certainly colder than we are used to by this date, not to mention virus that still effects our countryside. In time of war, often things are not as they appear, and there is our lead-in for today’s tale from the Revolutionary War…

Continue reading Bergen County Historical Society , “In time of war, often things are not as they appear, and there is our lead-in for today’s tale from the Revolutionary War…”

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March 22nd, 1780…a letter is drafted and sent to the Continental Outpost at Paramus Church being delivered by Lt. Colonel Richard Varick

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March 23,2018

first posted by the Bergen County Historical Society

Ridgewood NJ, form the Bergen County Historical Society on March 22nd, 1780…a letter is drafted and sent to the Continental Outpost at Paramus Church being delivered by Lt. Colonel Richard Varick …

To the Officer as Paramus,

We, the subscribers, magistrates, sheriff and officers of militia…residing in Hackensack and its vicinity…make application to you for a detachment or party from your command to assist in protecting us and our neighbors, the well-affected inhabitants to the American cause against the incursions and depredations of small parties of the enemy and their vile abettors, the Refugees..

We are credibly informed that the enemy have in contemplation to make an attack and incursion on the inhabitants of Hackensack within five days..

The well-affected inhabitants, though willing to risk their persons in defense of their property, are too few in number….for the purpose of repelling the enemies’ parties or keeping up continued guards and scouts for their security…

Hendrick Kuyper and Peter Haring, Justices; Jacob Terhune and Isaac Vanderbeek, freeholders; Adam Boyd sheriff, Cornelius Haring, adjutant; and John Outwater, Samuel Demarest, Elias Romeyn, and David Demarest, militia captains (Photo of the Paramus Church, in modern day Ridgewood, where the Continental army had a string of outposts connecting back to Morristown)