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From: Arthur Cole <>
Subject: Re: [NJBergen] "English Neighborhood"
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 08:14:26 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <3CB7A397.749B@pacbell.net>


Hello,

I agree completely with you,John. My family has lived
for many years,going back to the 1700's, in the
Closter and Schraalenburg area in Bergen County and
none of the ever referred to the area as the English
Neighborhood. That was always down in Fort Lee,
Ridgefield, Leonia, Fairview,etc. A really good map
showing the location of the various areas of old
Bergen County is the one drawn for the Bergen County
Board of Freeholders by the Bicentennial Commission in
1976. It can be found in the front of the book "The
Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley" by Adrian
C. Leiby as well as other places.

Howard Cole
--- John and Mari Minke <> wrote:
> This information can be debatable. English
> Neighborhood never extend north of what
> is present day Englewood. Closter was part of
> Harrington township. Tenafly was
> established early (although name was in Dutch and
> sort of modernized). The name Edsall
> is also not familiar to me, except for that defunct
> car by Ford.
>
> Bottom line is be careful of these modern day
> writers who think they have all the facts.
> However, I'm not that dense that I could be wrong.
> But, this English Neighborhood
> extending to Closter seems way off base.
>
> John
>
> wrote:
>
> > FYI - According to a wonderfully interesting
> webpage detailing the history of Englewood, NJ (at
> http://www.cityofenglewood.org/history.htm) what was
> known as "
> >
> > "One Englishman, Samuel Edsall, began buying and
> selling land in northern New Jersey soon after his
> arrival in America in 1664. Settlements grew and
> became per
> >
> > I recommend reading the page - I found it quite
> illumininating and very readable.
> >
> > Diane I.
> > (click on my name at top for email address)
>
>


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