Hackensack Township was a
township that was formed in 1693 within
Bergen County,
New Jersey. The township was created by the
New Jersey Legislature as one of the first group of townships in New Jersey. Bergen County, which had been created in 1682, was thus split into two parts: Hackensack Township to the north, and
Bergen Township to the south.
As originally constituted on October 31, 1693, the township included portions of present-day
Bergen County between the
Hudson River on the east and the Hackensack River to the west, northward to the boundary with
New York and south to the border with current
Hudson County.[7]
In 1775,
Harrington Township was formed by royal charter from the northern portions of both New Barbadoes Township and Hackensack Township.[7]
On March 22, 1871, Hackensack Township was subdivided into three new townships, each stretching from the Hudson River on the east to the Hackensack River in the west. The northern portion became
Palisades Township, the center strip became
Englewood Township, and the southern portion became
Ridgefield Township. With the creation of these three new townships, Hackensack Township was dissolved that same day, March 22, 1871.[7]
^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"
^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."
Municipal Incorporations of the State of New Jersey (according to Counties) prepared by the Division of Local Government, Department of the Treasury (New Jersey); December 1, 1958