The 3rd Continental Light Dragoons, under the command by Lt. Colonel George Baylor, was one
of four regiments of dragoons authorized by the Continental Congress. On the 27th of September,
these 104 officers and men were dispatched to watch the bridge over the Hackensack River at the
intersection of modern Rivervale and Old Tappan Roads and to support General Wayne and his
men at Tappan