The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-12-18
PEDIGREE MANUFACTURING
AS illustrated by the Engineers.

AS illustrated by the Engineers.
In vol. i, page 1875, american 7rot-
ting Register appears:
Engineer, or. b., foaled is; got
by imp. Messenger, 1862, dam un-
known, but believed to have been well
bred. For number of years this horse
was represented to have been imported
into Canada by British officer, and to
have found his way, by surrcpttious
means, into the State of New YORK,
about 1914 His advertisements of that
period conveyed this impression.
Thomas jackson aud Geo. Tappen
owned the horse. and in after years the
latter, who was an unusually candid
man for one of his business and pur-
suits, gave David w. Jones of Cold
Harbor, l.. l., the true history of the
horse. His former owner, in order to
save him from the attachment of a
ere editor, ran him off from Pennsylva-
MIA, where he was bred, and sold him
to Jackson and Happen, at very low
price for so fine an animal; subsequent
investigation clearly established the
fact that he was got by Messenger,
probably in 1902, the year he stood at
Cooper's Ferry. He was sixteen hands
and an inch high, and of most perfect
proportions. lie stood two or three
years about Jericho, and was taken in
to Suffolk Co."
Underneath this, same volume and
page, is:
Engineer 2nd., gr. b., foaled about
1920; got by Engineer, son of Messen-
ger, 1862; dam, bay mare that ran
well, by Plato, son of Messenger, 1862
q. d, by Rainbow, son of imp. Wildair,
2752. Bred by Alexander Lewis, after
wards owned by Smith Burr, Suffolk
county, L. l.: stood some seasons
across the sound in Connecticut"
We add pedigree of Lady Suffolk,
page 203, same volume, as being the
probable end for which these pedigrees
were manufactured:
Gladly -uflolk, Or. m, foaled 1883 4;
got by Engineer 2nd; dam, bred by
John Floyd, l., L.; got by Don Quix-
ote, son of imp Messenger, 1862; cd.
by Rainbow, son of imp. Wildaii ,27j2.
Bred by Leonard W. Lawrence,
Smithstown, l.. l.: sold at weaving
time TO Charles Little for $50 90, from
whom Richard f. Blydenburgh
bought her and sold her at four wears
old to David Bryan for SIP 80, whose
property she remained until she died,
1853. This pedigree may be taken as
conclusive, For her wonderful per-
tormarces see calendar"
Same volume, page 1l6, is:
"Don Quixote, br. h., foaled 1870,
got by imp. Messenger, 1862; dam not
known. Owned by Mr.. Kissam,L l."
We now look to vol. ii. to see what
alterations Mr.. Wallace makes in his
conclusive" pedigree, and are sur
prised to find that it still remains in
tact. But in volume iii, page 172, we
| find:
"Don Quixote, br. b., foaled 1871 ,
got by Potomac, son of imp. Messen-
ger; dam bv imp. Messenger. The
late David w. Jones of l.. [. was pres
ent when this daughter of Messenger
was bred to Potomac. Corrected from
Vol. |. i"
1t would occur to an ordinary com
piler of pedigrees that if Mr.. Davi 4 W.
Jones saw this mare bred to Potomac,
and knew that she was daughter of
Messenger, he ought also to have
known by whom she was owned when
the transaction occurred; and if he
knew that Don Quixote was the result
of that union, he must also have known
the year when it took place.
Looking for Potomac in vol. i. we
find:
"Potomac (young), b. h., foaled
1917; got by Duroc, 791; dam by Poto-
mac, 1916, son of Messenger, 1862; q.
d. by Bashaw, 1870 Stood at Fiskhill.
Duchess Co., N. Y, 1928"
In NJ. Wallace's american Stud
Book, page 3O6, occurs:
"19l5, Potomac b. ivan Rantz's).
foaled 1886; got by imp. Messenger,
1862; dam by imp. Figure, 9O3; g. d.
by Bashaw, $50. Bred by Samuel
Young of N. Y"
Whether pedigree giving name of
breeder with no available address is
any better than one giving no name at
all, would seem to be All open question.
This is the only pedigree of this horse,
Potomac, given in any of Mr.. Wallace's
registers.
In volume V, IroHing Register, page
$50, Mr.. Wallace has:
Engineer (Burdick's) CHI. h., foaled
about 1919, got by Engineer, son of
imp. Messenger; dam not traced. Bred
on Long Island and purchased there by
Henry Newland when three years old
and taken to Saltwater, N. Y. passed
through several hands to Nathan Bur-
dick OF Warrensburg, N. Y, who kept
him many years. He then gave him
to his brother and he died at a great