Baylor Massacre

Baylor Massacre is a New Jersey historical marker in Bergen County.

In Rivervale - on Rivervale Avenue - 1,000 feet north of Old Tappan Road - Directly in front of McCann homestead.

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Here, as they slept, at dawn on Sept. 28, 1778, Colonel Geo. Baylor and 116 Virginia Dragoons were attached by the British under General "No-Flint" Grey. Major Clough, Surgeon George Evans, with fifty other Colonial Troopers were killed.

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library

Historical maps covering this location

1770 · [A chart of New York Island & North River, East River, passage through Hell Gate… (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
1777 · The province of New Jersey, divided into east and west, commonly called the Jerseys (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1782 · Carte de la Pensylvanie et du Nouveau Jersey (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1797 · New Jersey (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1811 · Map Of The Country Thirty Miles Round the City of New York. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Map Of The Country Thirty Miles Round the City of New York, 1811, covering the location of Baylor Massacre, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map Of The Country Thirty Miles Round the City of New York, 1811, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Baylor Massacre

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