Johannes Traphagen and his pioneer family
(“The Hermitage - General Historical Outline,” 4pp, Hermitage Archives; Sue Hudson, Background of Ho-Ho-Kus History, Woman’s Club of Ho-Ho-Kus, 1953, 8-11; George Miller, ed., The Minutes of the Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, Perth Amboy, 1960, II. 296, 331, III, 10; “The Hermitage: Historical Analysis,” 1-2. The search for the records on the early ownership of the Hermitage property was done by Louise Burnett, John Dater, and Alec Hurst in the 1970s; Records of the Dutch Reformed Church in Hackensack; Vol III, List of Leasees, Ramapaock Patent, March 1754; Miller, III, 334, 336- 41)
(The New York Gazette, February 28, 1763 in NJA, First Series, Vol. 24, 140-1; NJA, NE, V. 140; Miller, 390; Howard Randolph and Russell Rankin, eds., Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey: Reformed Dutch Church: Baptisms, 1740-1850, Newark, 1935, 138; Maxine Laurie and Joanne Walroth, eds. Minutes of the Board of Proprietors of the Eastern District of New Jersey from 1764 to 1794, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, 1985, 3; The New York Journal or General Advertiser, October 30, 1766)