Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-26
PEDIGREE HUNTINC:
OR,
THE WRATH OF THE OLD GRAY
MARE
BEING TRUE HISTORY OF THE DAM OF
ETHAN ALLEN.
"IIAGUE, June 20, $50.
MIR. THOMSON /:

Dear Sir.-Iours WAS received. She recol. /
lccts OF starting to goa visiting to Connect. |
cut in the town of Suflicld; but the snow was /
gone, so they only went to Rupert, Vermont |
to Il man by the name of >hcldon's, some dis |
tant relative, and he bought IL small sorre |
mare and let it come behind the sleigh. They |
drove Il pair of horses over there, but cannot /
recall what color they were. His sister went
with him instead of his daughter, The next .
june he went to Saratoga springs and traded |
the mare with Dr. DorsOn tor an old mare
and colt, dark brown they can't recolect OF
any gray mare that he traded for or sold in
any of his trips over there.
Yours truly,
j. :. BUTTOLPH.
His sister that went with him to Rupert has
been dead over thirty years"
(Thi> Buttolph married the only
daughter of Rufus Rising, ST.. and is re-
porting the recollection of Mrs. Rufus
Rising. ST.. widow
The next is Il letter from Ira Potter
dated March -, 1871. in which he says:
II think you must have been mi>inform-
ed concerning the horse. The horse that
Reuben Potter sold to Rufus Rising was
II gray gelding. If it is the gray mare
that foaled Ethan Allen, | can give in
formation. otherwise | cannot. | am no
connection of Ambrose Potter. but am
brother of Reuben Potter
The correspondence was continued
with a Mr.. Justin Bugbce. who wrote for
Mr.. Thomson as follows:
september %, ls7s.
JUSTIN BrGBEE, Esq: Your note of the 9Th
inst, of inquiry came to hand The grand
dam of Ethan Allen was gray mare called
the John Glazicr mare. He sold her to Dca.
John IIayford, and he sold her to Rufus Ris.
ing of Hague, and Rufus raised the mare in
question, and the gray horse that was quiz
Zed so much about year ago sired her.
Respectfully yours,
IRA POTTER.
LOST NATION, Iowa, Nov. l., ISIS.
j. BrGBEE:
Sir received your note of inquiry "A short
time ago. have been trying to collect my
memory rs best could in regard to such in.
formation "a You ask.
Yes, Rufus Rising raised and owned the said
horse, and the sire OF the gray horse do not
know definitely about, and do not think he
sired any other than the dam of Ethan Allen;
/
| think, and think he died.
With regards,
IRA POTTER.
Next is an extract from letter of Cur
It's Balcom, dated Hague, Nov. %, 1876:
| don't know whether he had the mare of
Potter or not. William BcVins says he did
and refers to W. II. Balloon, Mount Carroll, Ill.
Next. an extract from letter from
William H. Balloon. dated Argo, Carroll
Co., H., Dee. o, 1856
About Ambrose Potter recolect him very
well, and his son, Ansel Potter, and stewart
Wyness, his son-in.law; but about the little
gray marc-I am not very sure about her; but
| think that Reuben paid OF his crow tax with
her. The Potters lived some eight or nine
miles from me, 80 did not keep the run of
their business.
p. :. Ira Potter's wife was Balcom and II
years.
Then the following letter.
ARGO, Carroll Co., H., Dec. %, 1876.
ALLEN W. THOMSON
Respected Sir:-Yours of the 18th is at hand
and duly noted. You say you understand
Reuben Potter let H. Rising have her-thc
about that-and then he let George Johnson
have hcr-I remember George Johnson's hay
ing II gray mare. do not know anything
about Rising's having her of r. Potter. | re-,
member about Johnson's having her of Ris-
ing. | do not know anything ct her pedigree.
bought n gray mare of Caleb Balcom, senior,
that Rufus Rising used to own. She was foal-
ed about the year ISIS, should Judge She
was half hipped ana kept her to raise colts
| kept her until She raised four colts and then
! let her go To man by the name of Ira Wal
lace, and he sold her To aman in the next
town south-the town of Bolton. | do not
know whether il was the same mare you in.
qure about or not. | had some talk with a
MIR, Bevins of Hague. He says that the gray
mare that Rufus Rising used to own, that toal
ed the celebrated horse Ethan Allen, was sold
tod W. Holcomb of I'll. Whether il was the
gray mare that owned cannot say. | can
not say anything about Asa Curtis and his
stock. He lived in the west part of the town,
and lived three miles from him in the east
part | think that the mare that got was
bought from Rufus Rising by George Johnson
and sold to Caleb Balloon, ST., and he sold il
To me. | am not able to tell who owned her
after let her go, except the man sold her to-
Probably Franklin Potter is Reuben Potter
son-I have been informed since | wrote you
that Reuben Potter is dead. Curtis Balloon is
II cousin of mine ana lived in that part OF the
town near to Rufus Rising and George John,
son and Asa Curtis. | suppose you are trying
to get at the pedigree of the celebrated horse,
Ethan Allen. cannot give you any light on
the subject The fact is, am not much of IA
horse man. My business for over twenty
years past has been selling goods and tend