Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-09
WOODSTOCK, VT, Jan. /, lsSG.


W. II. BALCOM ESD.
Sir hate To trouble you again, hut wish
to get at the bottom facts in regard to the
mare you owned. In some particulars she
resembles the dam of Ethan Allen, but the
dates do not agree or correspond. II the dates
that are given in regard to the mare you own
ed, and the dam of Ethan, are correct, they
are not one and the same mare
From the best of your recollection do YOU
think you owned your mare in s4o the year
OF the Harrison campaign; Have you any
charges or papers that will show the time you
bought her and sold her:
Ans. | started ON my journey of emigration
to Illinois, July -. ls43, and the last colt rails
ed from the mare was two years old past at
that time. let the mare go in the tall when
the colt was six months old.
How long did Balcom and son own her. and
is either of them living: If SO, give their
address.
Ans. Balcom has been dead for more than
forty years and think his son j. dead, but
cannot say rs to that, he must be some -
years old if living. do not know how long
they had the mare.
DO you remember X. Rsing's owning and
driving the mare you owned:
ANS. As told you before, did not live
near r. Rising. | was told the way the mare
was half hippcd was by Rising's getting her
into drftcd snow.
DO YOU remember when you owned the
mare of having any talk with Il. Rising about
her, and his saying he used To own her:
ANS. do not remember of having any talk
with him about the mare.
You say Rising halt hipped her in a snow
bank; did he say so-or who did;
Ans. That was the understanding with al
that had anything to say about it. did no
see Rising very often and had no deal witt
him.
From the best of ycur recollection, who
said Rising raised the mare? DO you thinl
he said so:
Ans. About the above, do not know rs M
did raise the mare. She always Gale,
the Rufe Rising mare; that is all can tel
about ii.
From the best of your recollection, whit
, said she was by the French horse that wa
taken from Clurcmont, y H.; Did Rising sa
so, do you think
ANS. | was talking with nephew of Charlie
l Atherton about ii, and he told me about tn
. horse his uncle Charles brought from Clare
. mont, " H. and stood him at III Upper Fails
He thought by the breed OF the mare that pre-
badly She was one OF his colts.
Describe the French horse; what was hi
color and size? Was he an active, hgh-spiri
ed horse?
Ans. The French horse am told was
dapple gray and was IA very fast horse; coul
trot mile inside of three minutes, that WA
IA fast horse for that day and age.
: Morgan horses have often been Gale
French. Did this horse have the look and AZ
ton of the Morgans; Was he ever Gale
Morgan and what became of him:
}. Ans. / cannot say rs to that. | do not kno
e anything about the horse only what Alberto
l. told me. ! have learned of late from Athe
e ton that his Uncle Charles returned the hor-
+ To the man he had him of.
: II Rising raised your mare he owned h,
4 dam. Tell what you can in regard to her dan
!. her color, what. was it,
ii Ans. know nothing about her dam.
| one person says Rising raised Ethans dan
| from the John Glazicr mare, and she was 81
II ed by II -year-old gray colt that Risil
Il owned. Did you ever hear anything about
c ANS. | never heard anything about II
above. | remember that GlazieT had IA veT
/ smart and fine little mare, but do not kno
e what became of ii. | have been away fro
c that part of the country forty three years.
II Give the color and the sex of the first co
o your mare brought, name of owner OF hor'
o that sired it, and was the colt rs large or lar
If er than the dam? and same us to secon
|; third and fourth colts.
A. ANS. The first colt raised was mare m
e was iron gray; the second was n horse co
I, iron gray, with white name and tail. so
ID the span to a man by the name of Grahar
N who lived in the town of Putnam.
Of wish to get as exact n description of yo
n mare as / can, and viii go over the points