In 1983, in celebration of the County’s tri-centennial, a new seal of Bergen County was created.
George Woodbridge, an artist from Brooklyn and a Revolutionary War buff who has illustrated
books on uniforms and weaponry, drew it. This seal accentuates the county’s founding year,
1683, in scrollwork between a Dutch settler-trader and Indian shaking hands on the banks of the
Hudson beneath the Palisades. The Dutchman’s ship is anchored offshore. Perched above them is
an eagle.