Please Note: Due to a renovation of the Ridgewood Library Auditorium this event will take place at the Old Paramus Church Fellowship Hall. 

GSBC General Meeting
The Baylor Massacre
Presentation by Ed Moderacki
Monday, 28 September 2026 @ 7 pm
In-Person at the Old Paramus Reformed Church Fellowship Hall, 660 E Glen Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Free and open to the public; Presentation replay available to GSBC Members 

Description
September 28, 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.

Speaker
Edmund Moderacki was born in River Vale and has taught in the local schools for thirty-five years. He is a member of the Pascack Historical Society and is the River Vale Township historian.

This event is brought to you by the Bolger Heritage Center at the Ridgewood Public Library and the Genealogical Society of Bergen County.