The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-23

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others, took their mares to him. Ham
ilton did not get colt.
Old Hambletonian never came to
Shoreham or Bridport. He was % or
more-l think 27-when | saw him in
Bishops meadow at Granville. l sup
pose he lived and died in Granville.
Alexander, son of Bishops Hamble-
tonian, Comstock & Burritt, tavern
keepers, kept in Shelburn and stood
him about. lie was nice horse and
lived to be "a years old. | do not think
he was of the earliest colts of Bishops
Hambletonian. The stock OF Bishops
Hambletonian were large, nice horses,
would weigh 100 lbs. or so. | never
saw any grays, and never knew anoth-
err as small as the Allen Smith horse.
Another son of Bishops Ilambletonian
called Clinton, a medium-sized brown
horse, about 1000 lbs, went to Hines
burgh. think Bishop owned him and
one Mattocks from Granville took him
up there. | don't know, but do not
think the old horse ever went up that
way.
My horses name was Diomede, dap
Pile bay, three white feet and white
face. He weighed at best 1860 lbs. He
was shaped like old Lambert, not over
tall, but round. | bred him. lie was
foaed in 1928 and died in 1852; got by
Post Boy, owned by Col. Doolittle.
Post Boy then stood in Shoreham about
three miles from Bridport village. lie
used to stand at Bridport village.
was kept about here, and two years he
vent to Montreal, and down the river
to Longucil. He stood at Longueil.
lie was good trotter to saddle. He
was six or seven perhaps eight when
he went To Canada. lie stood right
there two consecutive seasons and
came back. think now he got back
two or three years before Black Hawk
was brought in.
Post Boy was foaled in Uardwick,
Mass. Col. Earle owned the mare and
bred the horse. lie used to go to Vir-
ginia with mules that he bred, and
there bred his mare to Old Diomede.
Col. Earle had Il jack up here about a
mile north, and he came and put up
with me; my colt was then two years
old, and Col. Earle told me he looked,
color, marks and all, like Old Diomede !;
50 called him Diomede. | talked with
Col. Earle about the breeding of Post
Boy, and that is where | got my infor-
nation.
knew the Coburn horse, bred by
Breed of Crown Point. think he was
by Post Boy. | do not remember
Matchem nor Leonidas, nor King Will
liam.
The dam of my horse, Diomede, was
sired by Dave Hill's Aurelius, bred by
Esquire Miner of Bridport. He was a
very large bay horse, got by the Satter-
ly horse of Middlebury. Satterly kept
a store right across from where the
graded school Is. Hill got Aurelins at
years old. l went with Col. Earle
and took mare to old Post Boy when
he Was in the hands of Calhoun OF
Westford, who bought HIM of the estate
of Col. Doolittle. lie was about IA
when he came here and he stood here
about six years. Post Boy was dark
roau, no marks, pretty long head, high
ear. Their chests were tremendous
and they had strorg limbs, heads well
up. Post Boy was about IA l-2 hands
high, low horse; but he came up,you
know. He might weigh 1000 lbs. Hi;
stock were great roadsters.
The horse or colt thar got old Liber
ty was out of the Carter mare, Fancy
brought from New Jersey by Carter
Fancy was second dam of my horse
Diomede. She had two stud colts tina
were here young in the west part o
the town, and while yet young, but at
ter some service, were taken to or neal
st. Lawrence county, N. Y. Allel
I Smith knew all this. | learned it il
inquiring up the pedigree of my horse
Smith was adjulant of our regimen
and used to ride Liberty "a very sty
fish, good-moving horse, say 10 l.:
hands high, about the same size a
Bishops IanbletOnian.
There was the Wilmarth horse, owned
by Wilmarth of Addison. near the foo
: of Snake Mountain, sired by Liberty
and there was another. guess Har
vey Yale had the old horse.
, guess the black mare that brOugh
Sherman Black Hawk was by Liberty
She was pretty good-sized mare. Sh
7 brought Black Hawk Chief and Sher
man Black Hawk. l think she wa
3 bred by Bradley Myrick. who lived nj