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- ↑ Compendium of censuses 1726-1905: together with the tabulated returns of 1905, New Jersey Department of State, 1906. Accessed October 22, 2015.
- ↑ Bowen, Francis. American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1843, p. 231, David H. Williams, 1842. Accessed October 22, 2015.
- ↑ Raum, John O. The History of New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 1, p. 238. J. E. Potter and company, 1877. Accessed October 22, 2015. "Hackensack, formerly a township of this county, was ten miles long, with a width varying from three to five miles. It was bounded north by Harrington, east by the Hudson river, south by North Bergen in Hudson county, and west by Lodi and New Barbadoes.... Its population in 1850 was 3,506; in 1860, 5,488 and in 1870, 8,038"
- ↑ Debow, James Dunwoody Brownson. The Seventh Census of the United States: 1850, p. 137. R. Armstrong, 1853. Accessed October 22, 2015.
- ↑ Staff. A compendium of the ninth census, 1870, p. 258. United States Census Bureau, 1872. Accessed October 22, 2015.
- ↑ Clayton, 1882. p. 163. "Under this act a court of small causes was organized at 'New Hackensack,' probably the village now known as Hackensack, with the 'New' prefixed to it for a time to distinguish it from Old Hackensack (township) on the east side the river."
- 1 2 3 Snyder, John P. The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 79. Accessed October 22, 2015.
