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.

The Century House. -- The oldest farm-house now standing on or near the King's Bridge road is that known as " the Century House." It is on the Harlem River bank, and belongs to the ancient Nagle family, original landholders of that iiart of the island with the Dyrkmans. Its date, marked on a stone inserted in the front wall, is, if we remember right, 1734. It is described by \V. C. Smith in his article on the Roger Morris house. -- Mug. of Am. Hist., vi. 1(13.

There were two " Black Horse " inns of fame. That of the colonial and Revolutionary period was situated near McGown's Pass, and was still standing in 1812. The second was built in 1805 near the Tabby Hook Landing, or what is now called Inwood .Street, and was the half-way house for the Albany coaches between their starting-point in New York City and the first change at Yonkers.^ Henry Norman was its builder and original proprietor, and when the Widow Crawford kept it, a sign, bearing the figure of a black horse, swung from a pole in front of the door. Neither the inn nor the land on which it stands has had many owners. In 1740 John Schuyler, Jr., Philip Schuyler, Stephen Bayard, Jr., and James Stephenson had it by letters patent from the King ; from them it passed to John Livingston, who sold it, with all its rights and titles, " except to gold and silver mines," to Johannis Seckeles; he to Henry Norman ; he to a Dyckman, and the latter to the Flint family.