Prior to their departure, on a Sunday, they always collected the young children ami left them in the care of their friends, while they set off early in the morning and walked to the city barefooted, carrying their shoes and stockings in their hands, .\bout twelve miles from New York, at a place niiice culled the Bliif J>V(i, there «as a large rock by the roadside coveriil with re^Jar ; here they stopped for a short time to rest and take some refreshments, and tlien proceeded on their .journey till they came to Kresh Water Pond, within the bounds of the city. Here they washed their feet, pnt i>n their shoes and stockings, and walked to the French Church (the old church I)u St. Esprit in Pine Street), where they generally arrired by the time service begun."

A writer in the same magazine (vol. viii.. No. 4, October, 1881 ) located the tavern on the east side of the old King's Bridge road, " opposite the old yellow house now standing south of One Hundred and Eighty-iii-st Street," and added that it was directly east of Fort Washington, and was demolished about

Jtiig. vol. iii. No. 2, April, 187!). The same number mentions that on his entrance to New York, in November, 1783, he stopped at Day's Tavern, opposite the Point of Rocks, at the junction of the Harlem and Kingsl>ridge roads. > Ilitlo. .V.iy., vol. vi. No. 1, January, 1881.

1820. To support his statement against those writers who urged that it was on the west side of that highway, he quotes at length (vol. iv. p. 4f)0; v. p. 142 ; vi. pp. 64, 22, 300), from the reminiscences and papers of Isaac M. Dyckmaii and Blazius Ryer. He contends that the mistake arose from the location of another old house about half a mile south of the