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

1 The New York Faciei of June 10, 1748, contains the following advertisement ;

"The Blue Bell Bbvived.-- Stephen Dolbeer begs leave to acquaint his friends and the public in general that he has opened the Blue Bell Tavern, at Fort AVasliington, where he hopes for the continuance of his form^- customers and all those gentlemen who please to favour him with their custom ^» / shall be waited on in the genteelest manner. .\lso f // X good stabling and pasture for horses." /

In the hailtj Advertiser of February 17, 1787, John Battin advertises that his porter house, at the sign of the Blue Bell, Sloat Lane, will remove on the first of Maj* to the house opposite to the one he then oci upied. The carrying of the sign to the city probably disposes of the Revolutionary Blue Bell, as Colles, in bis road map of 1789, marks the old house as Wuldron's Tavern.

guests one of the upper rooms as once the lodging-room of General Washington. The venerable Dr. Bibby, of Cortlaodt House, states that this property was purchased, shortly after the War of Independence, of the heirs of Eden Mefcalf by .Me.tander Mc('omb, of New York, the father of General .\lcxander McComb, of the I'nited States anny.