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But the "full family tree of Thompson is not well-researched." The free Blacks who settled the Alpine neighborhood in the mid-1800s built the first African American church in Bergen County.

But for anyone searching for the names and records of African-American ancestors before the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War, records of last names are hard to come by.