Editing Paramus, New Jersey (section)

===18th century===
[[Albrycht Zaborowski]], whose descendants became known by the family name "Zabriskie",<ref>The [[Zabriskie House (Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey)|Zabriskie House]], built in 1796 in nearby [[Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey]], is an area landmark.</ref> immigrated from Poland via the Dutch ship ''Deb Ves''<ref name=Wearimus>{{Cite web |url=http://stilltitled.com/2011/07/21/paramus-or-land-of-the-wild-turkey/ |title="Paramus, or land of the wild turkey" |date=July 21, 2011 |access-date=July 22, 2011 |archive-date=May 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507064553/http://stilltitled.com/2011/07/21/paramus-or-land-of-the-wild-turkey/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in 1662. He settled in the [[Dutch West Indies Company]] town of Ackensack, site of the present-day [[Hackensack, New Jersey|Hackensack]]. A son, Jacob, was captured by the Lenape and held for 15 years. When he was returned to his family, the Lenape explained to Saboroweski that they had taken the child in order to teach him their language so that he could serve as a translator. They granted Saboroweski approximately {{convert|2,000|acre|km2}} of land which became known as the "Paramus Patent".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zDEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA322 ''History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930142339/https://books.google.com/books?id=zDEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA322#v=onepage&q&f=false |date=September 30, 2023 }}, pp. 321–322. Accessed October 6, 2019.</ref>

During the [[American Revolutionary War]], the county included both [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalists]] and [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriots]], with Patriots "greatly outnumbering" Tories.<ref>''Ridgewood Past and Present,'' p. 4</ref> Although no major battles were fought in Bergen County, Paramus was part of the military activity, as colonial troops were stationed in Ramapo under the command of [[Aaron Burr]].<ref>Hamilton, Alexander. ''The Papers of Alexander Hamilton,'' Columbia University Press, 1977, p. 296. While stationed in Ramapo, Burr met the woman he later married. The 1782 ceremony was held in Paramus.</ref> In 1777, the British raided the Hackensack area and Burr marched troops to Paramus, where he attacked the British, forcing them to withdraw.<ref>''Ridgewood Past and Present,'' p. 7.</ref> General [[George Washington]] was in Paramus several times during the War: December 1778; July 1780; and, December 1780.<ref>''Ridgewood Past and Present'', p. 6</ref> Following the [[Battle of Monmouth]], Washington established his headquarters in Paramus in July 1778.<ref>Bake, William Spohn. ''Itinerary of General Washington from June 15, 1775, to December 23, 1783'', [[J. B. Lippincott & Co.|J. B. Lippincott Company]], 1892, p. 137</ref> Over the advice of his staff, Washington moved his headquarters to [[Westchester County, New York]].<ref>Leiby, Adrian Coulter. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gRPUUwPFmNgC&pg=PA158 ''The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930142339/https://books.google.com/books?id=gRPUUwPFmNgC&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q&f=false |date=September 30, 2023 }}, p. 158. [[Rutgers University Press]], 1980. {{ISBN|9780813508986}}. Accessed October 6, 2019.</ref>

A section of Paramus known as ''Dunkerhook'', meaning ''dark corner'' in [[Dutch language|Dutch]], was a free African-American community dating to the early 18th century. Although historical markers on the current site and local oral tradition maintain that this was a slave community, contemporary records document that it was a community of [[free people of color|free blacks]], not slaves.<ref>[http://www.lutins.org/dunkerh.html Dunkerhook: Slave Community?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927081728/http://www.lutins.org/dunkerh.html |date=September 27, 2006 }}, accessed November 11, 2006.</ref> A group of houses built on Dunkerhook Road by the Zabriskies in the late 18th to early 19th centuries was the center of a community of black farmers, who had been slaves held by the Zabriskie family.<ref>Cardwell, Diane. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/nyregion/zabriskie-tenant-house-in-paramus-may-soon-come-down.html "For House Telling Paramus's History, End May Be Near"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123024030/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/nyregion/zabriskie-tenant-house-in-paramus-may-soon-come-down.html |date=November 23, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 27, 2011. Accessed December 25, 2011. "The two houses, at 273 and 263 Dunkerhook, and a third one down the road and just over the line in Fair Lawn, were originally built, historians say, by one of the founding families of Bergen County, the Zabriskies. The house at 273 Dunkerhook dates to around 1790; the one at 263 Dunkerhook dates to 1803. As the Paramus houses passed from the Zabriskies to black farmers believed to be former Zabriskie slaves, they helped seed a thriving black settlement of several houses and a church that lasted into the 1930s."</ref>