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

Blue Bell," and which was on the west side of the road and was destroyed by fire about 1846. The Magazine of American History for November, 1881, reviews all this testimony and draws the deduction that the colonial tavern was on the west side, but that some time after 1802, the first hostelry of the name having been abandoned iu 1787, Blaze Moore revived the old sign of the "Blue Bell " at a tavern which he kept on the east side.''

Lossing's gossij) of this venerable house of refreshment* acce])ts the west side theory and makes it a

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structure that, when he wrote, was still stauding and occupied as a dwelling. He quotes Cadwallader Colden, who, in October, 1753, wrote to his wife of having rested at it on a journey to New York, when it was " very well kept by a Dutchman named Vanderventer, and our food and lodgings were very comfortable." Tradition says that General Heath occupied it for his headquarters in October, 1776, and that Washington and Lee met there on the morning when they followed the American army and journeyed together to the Bronx.