I went to high school in Old Tappan and never had a clue that there was once a major massacre there. Should someone have maybe mentioned this in, say, a history class?
My daughter asked her history teacher why he didn’t mention anything about 9-11 in class. He gave a snarky remark. They sure spent a lot of time on American Imperialism though.
It was called Baylor’s Massacre. A troop of Virginia Dragoons was encamped over on River Vale Rd. in River Vale. The British launched a sweep and caught them at night and assaulted the camp with bayonet only, like Paoli. I remember as a kid when the bodies of the victims were found at the bottom of a old well, this was in the early 1970’s, right where Old Tappan Rd meets River Vale Rd. They have a little park there now. The prisoners were brought to the church in Tappan, NY by the now 76 House, where they were interrogated by none other than Major Andre, who himself would hung by the neck just a few blocks away on the Northvale-Tappan, NY border.