Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-30
INTERVIEWS.
NORTH AMERICAN, WHITEHALL, BARNEY
HENRY, ETC.


Mr.. II. d. Noble of Tinmouth, VT,
says that Seth Phillips of Clarendon
Springs, VT, used to take care of Bis
hops Hambetonian.
He says also that Comet was a very
handsome horse; long, not very tall,
smooth, round turned horse; had his
shoulder broken when colt. He does
not know what became of him.
j. 5. Dutton of Castleton, VT, 80 years
of age, says that Mr.. Royal Bullock got
the Bullock Horse, or North American, of
Mr.. Benager Wicker of Orwell, VT. He
does not know of whom Wicker got him.
Bullock claimed that the horse was run
out of Canada at the time of the Papi-
neau war, and always stated that he was
by Sir Walter. Mr.. Dutton is a very re-
liable man, blacksmith by trade, and
when twenty years old, worked for Mr..
Bullock, who then had North American,
and as Mr.. Dutton thinks, had had him
some five years. Mr. Bullock sold the
horse to Joseph Packard, son of Rev. Mr..
Packard, Baptist minister at Walling
ford, VT. This Joseph Packard took the
horse West.
Mr.. Button says Barney Henry was a
blood bay, l5-2, or more, and about 100
lbs, bred by George Barney of Hatch
Hill or East Whitehall, y. y, sired by
Longs Henry. Long saw the running
race between Henry and Eclipse and
bought Il colt from each, one called
Longs Henry and the other Longs
Eclipse. Mr.. Dutton had the idea that
this race occurred in England, in which
he is evidently mistaken. He says the
colts of Barney Henry were much alike.
Mr.. button also says that Biggart's
Rather was bred by Squire Durham of
Middletown, VT. Durham bred his
this horse. Biggart lived at Pawlet. VT,
where he kept hotel for years, and then
moved to New York State.
Mr.. Button also says that the dam of
Highland Grey was an uncouth, long,
rangy, mare, with hollow back, wide
across the hips and a Hambletonian head.
Joseph Bishop of Castleton. VT, 50
years of age, very bright and intelligent,
and apparently very accurate and truth
full, says that Barney Henry was sired by
Longs Henry. Long lived at Cambridge,
n. Y, and owned a good many horses
owned Eclipse and Magnum Bonum.
Longs Henry, or his sire. was imported.
as Mr.. Bishop thinks.
Mr.. Bishop says that his father and
Judge II. Hodges hired of Isaac Bishop
of Granville, N Y, for one season, fol
one hundred dollars, horse called De
Witt Clinton, by Bishops Hambletonian
and stood him at Clarendon, Vt.
Mr.. Bishop was married in December
1928, and came into CastletOn the mex
January: moved to Ira in 1873 and re-
manned seven years, when he moved bacl
to CaStleton, where he has since lived
He says that there was horse called lie
onidas, owned, he thinks, by Squire IIar
ris of Castleton before he (Bishop) cam,
TO Castleton the first time; that SPUR,
Cheney I.angdon had a pair of bay Leon
idas horses. Leonidas got powerful
stock. Old Squire Harris also owned
horse called Flag of Truce. Mr.. Bis
hops father, who lived in Clarendon, VT.
tended for two years young Flag o
Truce owned by Mr.. Briggs; he ais
tended a horse called Golden Farmer
owned by Mr.. Town of Massachusetts
large, noble-looking horse, not much o
roadster, but better for teaming.
\ man by the name of Miller owne
Washington Grey, low horse not owe
IL hands, would weigh 1000 lbs, goo
stopper. He brought him from Massa
chusetts.
Mr.. Avery Ames of Ira, between lS3
and 1910, sold to Mr.. Rudd of Middle
town, VT, a colt by Barney Henry Gale
Abdannah Mr.. Bishop first knew Ban
ney Henry while he lived at Ira. Ban
ney owned the horse and stood him a
Castleton, where Mr.. Bishop sent mar
to him from Ira and bred colt. ii
says that Barney Henry was good size
horse, eleven to twelve hundred. and nea
sixteen hands, and he should think froI
seven to ten years old when he bred t
him at Castleton.
We saw Mr.. w. Manchester of Eas
Whitehall, n. Y, whose father bred tn
stallion, Whitehall. Mr.. Mancheste
states that Whitehall was sired by tn
Bullock Horse North American); hi
dam one of pair of bay mares bougt
by his father about 1910 of Almon Bartl
olomew, now living at Fair Haven, v