John Fell was a leader of the Bergen County resistance to the British in the Revolutionary War and so despised by the British that he was captured in this very house in Allendale and imprisoned in New York City for more than a year.
He kept a secret journal during his captivity -- the journal documented the harsh conditions in these jails. More Americans
died in British prisons in New York City during the Revolution than on the battlefield. His journal has been reprinted in a book about American prisoners of war during the Revolution.
Fell served the county as a Justice of Peace, a judge of the court of common pleas, and served the county as a member of the Provincial, a member of the New Jersey Council.
As a member of the First Continental Congress of the United States, John Fell ratified the Constitution.
John Fell kept a diary while he was a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress.
It has also been reprinted by a university press.
Joseph Warner Allen
Stephen Cable
The
daughter of former owner Stephen Cable, Mary Emma (Mrs. James A.
Reading) first conducted a Sunday school in the home of her parents. In
1873, the school was moved to an old barn opposite the Cable house.
This Sunday school grew to become the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany,
the oldest church in Allendale.
General Adam Badeau
In 1892-1893 General Adam Badeau, summered in the Fell house. He
was the military secretary to General (later President of the U. S.)
Ulysses E. Grant from 1864-1866, and later Consul General at London.
Joseph B. Taylor
The Cable family retained ownership of this house until 1912, when Joseph B. Taylor bought the house. He was born in Brooklyn in about 1868 and his grandfather, William Taylor was the founder of the Columbian Iron Works in
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