After the Revolutionary war the English Government in gratitude for services rendered, presented Mr. Dyckman with a full set of diamonds, and a golden urn 18 inches high. As stated above, Elizabeth, wife of Col. John P. Cruger, was the daughter of Peter C. Dyckman, the son of Staats Morris, by his wife Eliza Kennedy. In the possession of Mr. Cruger, is a "loving cup," used for family christenings, brought from Ireland by James Kennedy, more than a hundred years ago; marked, "B. K."b

The library at Boscobel formerly contained a valuable collection of books, (amounting to 6,000 volumes) most of which wrere accidentally destroyed by fire, but twenty volumes still remain of the old collection."

Among other rare books, are the modern part of a Universal History of London, 1781, in 65 volumes; "from the earliest accounts to the present time, compiled from original authors." The Annual Register, from 1750 to 1800, 44 volumes printed 1791, Encyclopedia Brittanica, 20 volumes, London, 1797. Junins, in several volumes richly bound in vellum, 1797. An account of the preservation of King Charles II, after the battle of Worcester, drawn up by himself, &c, London, 1803 containing portraits of Charles the Second, Richard Penderell, Mrs. Jane Lane, His Excellency Lieut. Gen. Dalyell, of Brims, Commander-in- Chief of His Majesty's forces in Scotland, 1666-16S5, Boscobel House with, its timbered gables and tower, with antique garden. There are three volumes of Bible, Old and New Testament. British Theatre 34 volumes, 1795; Porcupine's Works, &c, by William Cobbett, 12 volumes, London, May, 1S01; Orlando Furisso, translated from Italian by Judovico Ariosto, with notes by John Hoole, London, 1799; Jirmen Theatre, translated by Benjamin Thompson, Esq., in 6 volumes, London, 180 1 ; Cook's Voyages, 8 volumes quarto, London, 1785; Bruce's Travels to discover the source of the Nile, 1768-1773, Edinborough,