In the early morning daylight of September 28, 1778 at Overkill, American soldiers were dead, wounded, and missing after the attack on Baylor’s Dragoons; some escaped, others became British captives, Major Charles Clough lay dying, and Colonel Baylor, seriously injured, was taken prisoner, though as an officer he was to receive treatment due a gentleman, including a doctor to see to his wounds. Members of the local militia unit buried the dead, an official investigation was begun, and Baylor’s Dragoons were reorganized without Baylor and served with distinction to the end of the war. Baylor never fully recovered from his injuries and died in 1784 on the island of Barbados, where he had gone to try to recover his health. In 1967, after a local resident raised concern over a proposed housing development, archaeologists discovered the remains of six men who died in the attack, apparently hastily buried near the stream in three abandoned wooden tanning vats from the old eighteenth-century tannery. A silver stock buckle found in the excavation identified one of the fallen as Sergeant Isaac Davenport of the First Troop of the regiment, but the others remain unknown. In October 1970, the six patriots were reinterred next to the river, and in 1972 Bergen County officials dedicated the site as a memorial park. For more than 60 years, the millstone marking the gravesite had stood in front of River Vale’s Holdrun School; believed to be original to the tannery, it was donated by the town as a grave marker for the six patriots, while the final resting place of the others who fell in Baylor’s Massacre has never been discovered.