The October, 1881, issue of the Hhtorieal Magazine has these additional notices of old houses on the King's Bridge road, --

THE BLUE BELL TAVERN.

The Cross Kkvs, the very old stonchouee on this road, at alvout One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Street, is probably the only survivor of the outward Revolutionary inns. It was, traditionally, one of Washington's Rti)i>ping-places, and was known as the Cross Keys, by reason of two keys being crossed on the sign-board. It is said to have been kept by David Wares.

The Uyckman nousE, the only real Dutch farm-house extant on this road, standing not far from the twt'lve-niile stone, was built by .Jacob Dyckman, as we are told by Isaac M. Dycknian, the present representative of the name at King's Bridge, just after the close of the war, the original family mansion being burned by the enemy. The said Dycknian, a very enterprising and wealthy man, was the projector of the j bridge across Harlem River, sometimes called by his name, and owned the land on which the large hotel at King's Bridge now stands. The I old one stood on about the same foundation, and was burnt down some i forty years ago. Kifty-five years ago it is remembered as kept by James I Devoe. (ieneral Heath, in his "Memoirs," speaks of it as Hyatt's tavern. This was in 1777. Devoe subsequently hired it to one Jacob Hyatt. Doubtless it whs sometimes called Djckman's tavern, from the Dyckman ownei-ship.

The McComb Hoi se, at King s Bridge, long the property of Joseph Godwin, Esq., is said to have been used as a tavern during the Revo" lution, and Mrs. Robert McComb was accnstonied to point out to her