Event name
The Baylor Massacre (Genealogical Society of Bergen County)
When
Mon 09 / 28 / 2026
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Where
Fellowship Hall, Old Paramus Reformed Church
660 East Glen Avenue
Ridgewood
660 East Glen Avenue
Ridgewood
Who can attend
External website conditions
Price
FREE
GSBC: The Baylor Massacre
Fellowship Hall, Old Paramus Reformed Church
660 East Glen Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ, 07450
September 27, 1778 saw the bloodiest engagement of the Revolutionary War in Bergen County when a British Column under General Charles Grey attacked the sleeping 3rd Continental Light Dragoons under Lt Colonel Baylor at one o'clock in the morning at houses and barns in what is today River Vale. Historian Ed Moderacki will discuss the events leading up to and after the Baylor Massacre and the discovery of some of the Dragoon remains in 1967.

