Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-05-28
THE DAM OF ETHAN ALLEN.

year-old gray colt.
The testimony of two credible wit
nesses is always to be desired for the es-
tabishment of any disputed fact, is gen
orally, we think, very necessary, al
though, at times, circumstantial evidence,
with that of one witness, would seem to
be sufficient. In this case, that Rufus
Rising bred this mare, we have the testi
mony of witness in every way reliable
Ira Potter. We have also the state
ment of G.. NJ. Balcom, that Mr.. Rising
used to call her his cold colt" which has
some force in the same direction. We
have Ira Potter's testimony that he iris
ing) raised her from the Glazier gray !
mare sustained in remarkable way by |
proof that Rising owned the Glazier |
mare at the right time. This proof comes |
from Uoyt Johnson's positive statement
to that effect, from W. II. Balcoms state |
ment that his mare was the Rufus Rising
mare. and from Joseph Cushman's state
ment that the W. II. Balcom mare was
the John Glazier mare. There is also
another lot of testimony on this point
from an entirely different quarter Mr..
John Porter stated that either the dam of
Ethan. or her dom, was owned at one
time on the Pell farm, which was the
fact with the W. II. Balloon mare, for
Caleb Balcom, ST., and son, who sold the
mare to w. II. Balloon, then lived on the
Pell farm.
That she was sired by Il two-year-old
gray colt. rests entirely upon the evil
dence of Ira Potter, unless some weight
is given TO the statement to that effect
made by William Bevins. We should be
| glad to learn further from Mr.. Potter
/ Just what means he had of knowing this
fact.
In respect to the blood of this colt. or
of the horse that got the dam of Ethan.
we know absolutely nothing. If one is
to pass from the region of proof to that
of conjecture. the most probable sugges-
ton of the origin of such colt, or of the
mare herself if not by such colt, is that
he or she was sired by the gray horse
which Charles Atherton had at III. from
1925 to 1929 and which is shown by the
letters of W. II. Balloon and f. Atherton
to have got stock in Hague speedy for
that day and similar in build and color to
the dam of Ethan. 1t is proper to state
that Mr.. F. \. Wier of Walpole, y. H.,
says that this gray horse that was taken
] 70, 4 'ln hn lp.
tiancc by Revenge. son of Justin Morgan
1t is our further belief that the JOIN
Glazcr mare, grandam of Ethan, and til,
gray tilly foaled the property of Andrew
BcvinS in the spring of $50 or ~, from
the bay mare that he traded for in Yer
mont the previous winter. were one anC
the same animal Upon this point W.
have
First. the testimony of Benager Ackel
man, who saw the Bevins tilly and TIN
Glazier mare, that he thought it nigh
be the same animal.
Second, the fact that as early IA tn
pedigree of the dam of Ethan Allen be
gan to be discussed there has been
, tradition constantly coming up that sh
p was traded for by peddler in Vermont
= Third. the well-defned statement tina
e came to us from three sources, that tn
f dam of Ethan was brought into Hagu
. from Vermont either before birth or fol
: lowing her dam, by man by the nam
/ of Bevins. If the Bevins tilly was tn
: Glazier mare, this tradition, substitutin,
grandam for dam, would be literally con
[ rect; and this confusion of dam AM
4. grandam is quite Il common one.
I Now. that such a definite and pcculia
e tradition should eXiSt-and come to Il
/ from three different sources. would b
extraordinary if it were not true and al
= but Il single connecting link of it having
: been verified and that link not only prof
: able but partly proven, it becomes al
N most certain that the tradition is wei
founded, and that the GlaZier mare
grandeur of Ethan Allen, and the Al
drew Bevins filly We're one and the sam
animal.
1t will be seen from the testimony q
i Joseph Cu>hman that the Bcvins fill
- probably passed from Andrew Bevins
. Zeno and Abel Rising, from whom job
4 GlaZier had her. Mr.. Cushman remen
It bers nothing about her dam, and is prot
ably mistaken in supposing that she wa
- bred by the Rising brothers. They prof.
>. ably purchased her of their near neigl
>. Dor, Andrew Bevins, when she was quit
- young.
1t is also possible that when, late i
life, this mare passed out of the hands {
Ira Wallace, she went into possession c
e old Mr.. Richmond on Chilson Hill, an
d was the mare that Alvah l.. Bennett ha
in mind at the time of our interview wit
him.
:. There will probably be some furthe
- facts elected that will be pertinent, anC