. Papers and proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society . essness in matters affecting the liv-ing may be condoned, but surely the dead should be left unmolested. Here, then, is a subject which deserves the attention of thosewho respect the dead. If anything is to be done to save some ofthe little yards, action must be quick. Many are gone entirely. Insome the stones have fallen and have become misplaced so theycould never be put at the right graves. But others are still in-tact, excepting that they are overgrown with brush, and weeds and ■ Icujl, CAUcyimg uuat iucj die uvcigiuvvu wit
. Papers and proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society . essness in matters affecting the liv-ing may be condoned, but surely the dead should be left unmolested. Here, then, is a subject which deserves the attention of thosewho respect the dead. If anything is to be done to save some ofthe little yards, action must be quick. Many are gone entirely. Insome the stones have fallen and have become misplaced so theycould never be put at the right graves. But others are still in-tact, excepting that they are overgrown with brush, and weeds and ■ Icujl, CAUcyimg uuat iucj die uvcigiuvvu witu uiusu, anu wccua emu briers, while broken fences permit the cattle to make pasture ofthe graves. If this is not desecration it would be difficult to con-cieve of a more graphic illustration of the word. It is for member3of this society and others organized for the same purposes to ex-ert all the influence they possess in an effort to preserve what isleft of these last resting places of the early builders of the state. JOHN R. JCHENBACHS HOUSESADDLE RIVER i m. THE ACKERMAN HOMESTEAD DATE OF ERECTION UNCERTAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY 25 REFORMED CHURCH AT PARAMUS By Everett L. Zabriskie. The church was organized prior to 1725, and had a regular pastorat that time. Paramus was originally called Peremese, and was set-tled hy the children of Albert Zabriskie in 1713. Hohokus was set-tled by the Hopper and Ackerman families in 1720. The first settlerin this section was Aaron Ackerman, who originally occupied the A. Blauvelt property. What is now Ridge wood was settled bythe Van Emburgh family early in 1725 and these neighborhoods con-stituted the immediate congregation of the Paramus church. Priorto 1700 there were three churches; one at Hackensack, one atAequackanonk and one at Tappan. Pastor Guilliam Bertholf served the three churches and towardthe close of his ministry, just after 1700, exact date unknown, twonew churches were formed, one at Paramus and the other at Schraa-l
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