Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
INTERVIEW WITH TERRY CONDOR
LIE SECOND DAM oE ARlsIos.

THE SECOND DAM OF ARlSTOs.
In our recent visit to Shoreham. VT.
after the interviews on North American.
Smiths Hambletunan. etc, published
last week, we visited, in company with
Mr.. Barnum. Mr.. Terry Condor of Shore
ham. Mr.. Condor cmigrated from Ire
land to this country in 1929 and settled
in the town of Shoreham, where he has
since lived: he is now past ninety years
of age, but still keeps about and his facul-
ties are apparently as good as ever.
Mr.. Condor said that at one time
child was drowned in the creek at Ferris
burg and taken to a Mr.. Newelrs house
there. and DIR. Stone was called and drove
rapidly to Newells. hitched his mare in
the barn and spent some time trying to
resuscitate the child. In the meantime
the mare. standing in Il draught, was 50
foundered or sttlened up that the doctor
could not drive her away, and left her at
Mr.. Newell's. John Quinlan of Ferris
burg notified our informant. Mr.. Condon.
that there was such mare at Newell's.
and he went over and bought her of
Newell, who acted a. agent for Mr. Stone.
Mr.. Condor was informed at that time
that this mare was a full-blooded English
mare bought by DIR. Stone in Montreal.
She was black. no white. IL hands high
and beautiful mare. Mr.. Condor raised
nine colts from her. She was not i'm fOal
when he got her. The first foal was a
chestnut mare by the Bullock horse.
which he sold unbroken, to Mr.. MyricL.
son of Bradley Myrick, for $3.50 when
four wears old. He broke her and took her
West and sold her. as Mr. Condor under
stood for $1,000. All the other colts that
he raised We're by sherman Black Hawk.
Two black mares were sold to Mr. New
ell; there was a black stallion. kept by
Mr.. Condor till six years old and then
sold to Ira Fletcher and Bennett of Bird
port for 5000 Mr.. Condor refused $500
for this colt at three wears old. Fletcher
sent him to his cousin at Woodstock. VT.
who called him Wild Irishman Anuth-
er of these colts he let b. j. Myrick of
Bridport have, TO pay note that he in
dorsed for some person. There was an
other stallion sold to McNanny of Port
Henry: another, gelding, was sold to
y. W. IlolComb of ii. and went to Long
Island, Another. IA black mare. he sold
to Johnny Mclaughlin for $500 and an
old horse. Another. a stallion. he sold to
Cornelius 'Bren of III. The old mare
strayed away and was gone two or three
years when Condor got her back and sold
her to John Clunlan of Ferri,burgh for a
yoke of oxen. While she was gone she
was in the hands of Scion Laplam. who
lived on the lake shore. Vermont side.
and owned the Lapham Horse. son of
TO Quinlan she was, he thinks. in foal to
the Lapham Horse.
Mr.. Condon'S daughter. who was pres
ent. thought that one of the black mares
that Newell had was the one Mr.. Condor
sold to Mclaughlin of whom Newell got
her, and Mr.. Condor thought this might
be so.
We add letters received from Mr.. Lap
ham and Mr.. Barnum and await further
developments on this matter
CROWN POINT. y. N..O
July y. lSSG.
JOSEPH BATTELL, ESQ,
Dear Sir Yours of the 18th in regard
to the Condor mare, So-called, is received.
| once owned her. When this mare was
three years old Il man by the name of
Dalton was working for me. and NV
brother bought this mare of Mr.. Condor.
lie kept her two or three years and dur
ing that time he raised a colt from the
horse sometimes called the North horse.
the Merrick horse or Sherman horse: bur
what ever became OF that colt | don't
know, but think he sold it to some one
in Ferrisburgh. He then sold the male.
She was sold and traded several times
aud at last got into the hands of "A man
named Thompson in Ticonderoga |
bought her of him. The mare had got
ten pretty well along in years. | bought
her about July first. | kept her till about
the first of October and traded her with
a man by the name of Harrington, in
SchrOon. Late in the fall the mare got
away and came out onto the old fort
ground at TiconderOga. Mr.. Harrington
did not find where the mare was till the
next spring. 1t came out that the charges
on her were more than she was worth
and he went off and left her. That
spring she was bred to horse called
StOnewall jackson, owned by William
Arthur, and raised a mare called Fanny
jackson. the dam of Aristos.
Yours truly,
5. LAPHAM.
SHOREHAM, VT, July 26, 1856.
JOSEPH BATTELL, ESQ,