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From: John and Mari Minke <>
Subject: Re: [NJBergen] Overpeck Creek
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 20:35:26 -0700
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I think you will find that Overpeck Creek wanders across Pallisade
Avenue in Englewood and northerly past Brookside Cemetery and into the
hills in Tenafly.

There is also the Tenakill Brook that starts in Tenafly and flows
northerly and ends as a feeder to the Hackensack River near what is
now Harrington Park. This confluence is now inundated by the Oradell
Reservoir. Around Northvale is the Sparkill Creek that flowed to the
north across the state line.

John in California
RMH wrote:
>
> Just checked my Bergen County road map, and yes indeed, Overpeck is a
> large "creek", almost as broad as the Hackensack River that it joins.
> The problem is, if you look at the old maps on the Dutch Door
> Genealogy website http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com specifically
> the one called "Early Precincts and Patents on the Rockland County
> Border", you will see the VerValen Patent just southeast of the
> Tappan Patent, just south of the Lockhart Patent. Closter is a town
> within it. This is well north of the description of Overpeck way down
> in Teaneck and Ridgefield Park, and if the patent lay that far south,
> it would never have been partly in Rockland County.
>
> I can't see where the headwaters of the Overpeck are, don't have a
> geophysical map of the area - is it possible that the beginnings of
> the Overpeck that define the boundaries of the VerValen Patent are
> far enough north to be in Rockland County? Or isn't this
> Rockland/Bergen VerValen patent the one that's being described - is
> there more than one? Using my magnifiying glass on the original of
> the map referred to above I see "Vervalen, N.J.1701, N.Y.1708" and
> the west boundary seems to be the Tienakill. I'm not sure which line
> is the southern boundary, but if the VerValen is 2220 acres as
> compared with 16,000 in the Tappan Patent, it can't extend too far
> south. Maybe there is more than one VerValen patent?
>
> Regina Haring
> Nanuet, NY

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