As the advancing British armies entered the village of Hackensack, they were surprised to be welcomed by the inhabitants. The Hessian Lieutenant Andreas Wiederholdt described the town as “a place of about 160 houses and many well affected people, mostly Dutch.” The same thing happened at New-Bridge, two miles north of Hackensack, where British Lieutenant Henry Stirke wrote that the “inhabitants came in to take the oath of allegiance.”13
