The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-10-09

was over that bygones were to be by
cones Delaney appeared to receive
him Hospitality, invited him to break
fast, aud while at the table Delaney
and his slaves rugged temporary gal
lows i'll the barn and dragged Smith to
it and hung him. This act so
aroused the Indignation of the people
that Delaney soon left for England.
Mr.. Howard further said that gentle
men of the highest responsibility now
living at Fordham corroborate the
statement of Mr.. Carsa, as agreeing
with what they have repeatedly heard
from people who resided here previ-
ously to and after the Revolution. One
authority states that it was Col. De
Lancey's father, James Delaney who
was at one time chief justice and also
acknowledgements of New York, that
imported the horses Wildair, Lath, Cub
Mare and daughter of Sampson.
Lossing's, "Ilistory of the Revolu-
ton" states that Oliver Delaney was
brother to the chief justice (also lieu
tenant-governor) Delaney, that he
was one of the earliest, most infiuen-
tial and efficient of the loyalists, that
he with his son Oliver and nephew
James performed active service in
Lower West Chester. He was COM
missioned a brigadier and authorized
to raise three battalions of loyalists 4;
this he did. His son Oliver was com
missioned a captain of horse in 1776.
AT the close of the war Gen. Delaney
went to England, was elected a mem
Der of Parliament and died there, in
1888. His son accompanied him and
rose to the rank of major general. AT
the time of his death he was almost
at the head of the British army list.
James, nephew of Gen. Delaney
commanded a battalion of horse in his
uncle's brigade. On account of his ac-
tivity in supplying the British army
with cattle from the farms of West
Chester, his troops were called Cow.
boys. Capt. Cushin surprised Col
DeLancey's corps near No. s and cap
| tured over forty OF them; the colone
was absent at the time. The confisca
ton act of the New York Legislature
swept away the largest portion of the
DeLanceys' estate.
In an article in the New York Su1
entitled "Early New York Racing
History" in speaking of the DeLan
ceys it says: "For half century, til
the breaking out of the Revolution
they had full swing in the city of New
York. James DeLancey's friends die
not deny that he liked cock fighting
horse racing and women, but he want
hypocrisy to conceal his faults, the,
were handsome race also, and pow
erful, stalwart men. AS a family the,
were noted as the head of the racin!
society of the continent and it is doubt
full whether there is any stable in tn
country to-day that can be compare,
in extent and variety with that o
James Delaney at the height of hi
fame.
The New York gentlemen were nc
10th to meet the sportsnen of Mary
land and Virginia on their own grouu
and brought home many rich prize.
In October, 1863, James Delaney
famous bay horse Lath won the t1O
purse, at Pniladeldhia. In Nav, III;
Capt. DeLancey's bay mare Sultan
won at the same place the Whim purs
of ESQ.
In 1774 the Jockey Club plate of go
was won by James DeLancey's Sian
erkin."
In speaking of the great race-hors
True Brton it states his owner, Wa
ers, had for two years challenged til
continent to trial of speed, and atte
giving the particulars of his race wit
Selim, it says there was another Tru
Briton. He was the favorite horse
: James Delaney, who took part wit
the crown in the parliamentary strus
gle, and was colonel of a royal reg
ment, and chief of the famous COW
boys who ravaged West Chester. d.
votedly attached to his mother who r.
sided on the old homestead at We
: Farms, he was wont to visit her whel
ever an opportunity offered. On on
2 occasion he tied his horse to the gat,
and, depending on the watchfulness
, his orderies, was paying his customar
. visit when some SINNERS, as the patl
OF farmers were called, took adyantae
of the carelessness of the guard ali
stole the horse. Delaney heard ii
hoofs and raising the neightorhol
S made hot and long pursuit, but thel
. was no catching the gallant beast. II
9 was taken across the lines into Coz
necticut, and is said to have been ii
E sire of the famous Morgan stock. Al
l drew Carsa, the last OF the guides
: the American army, relates that he hs
e seen Col. Delaney jump True BritC
back and forth over tive-railed fenc
l 1t states that James Delaney so
out what remained of his stud in Il
fall of l77j.
= From the evidence that has been 81
y en-, the friends of the Morgans have q
faith that True Briton was the sire
= the Justin Morgan, and, too, that TIT
Briton was Col. James DeLancey's {
= vorile saddle horse. The fact that Co
= DeLancey's ia her owned some of ii
! very best horses in America is pro,
that his sons favorite saddle horse W,
d well-bred horse. 1t has been show
that the spCrtsmen of the two section
met in contests of speed, and DeLal
cey may have bred some of his mar,
to some of the Southern horses, al
: and they may have done the san
: to DeLancey's horses, and True Bri
on may have been by Traveller out
: DaIancav,s imnorted racer as his a,