Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-30

''She was brown, l5-2, 100 in good con-
dition; raised well on the withers, long
neck, cut up well, long slim ear, wide be-
tween eyes. long nice hip, tail high, nice
leg, to 10 years old when father bought
her about 1871; he traded for the two
mares. As long ago as can remember
they had the Signal breed of horses.
George Douglas of Whitehall owned Sig
nal | think he bred him. This was be-
fore 1910"
We saw Mr.. Manchester. who is man
ing, in company with Mr.. Leonard, who
owns the Fair Haven trotting track. The
next day we called upon Mr.. Almon
Bartholomew, an old gentleman of 81
years, but well preserved, who said:
II traded IA pair of hay mares, 1900 lbs.
each, good shaped mares, with Welcome
Manchester for a four-vear-old mare and
dun mare with foal and twenty-five
dollars. One of the mares which | traded
| bred. She had a white snip and two
or three white feet: the other had no
marks and was bred by Alanson kelli-
cult of Hampton. NY. adjoining White
hall near Hatch Hill, of whom | bought
her for $50. cash. They were both sired
by Barney Henry. | kept the tavern five
years and half, till my wife died, fifty
four years ago. | bred the mare with
white snip while | kept the tav-
ern, halfway house between White
hall and Fair Haven. Her dam was
a good black mare, pretty good size,
but not as large as the bay mare.
Barney Henry stood one day each at
Whitehall and Fair Haven. After | left
the hotel, probably year or two after,
went upon farm in Whitehall. 1t was
while lived upon the farm that | traded
with Manchester. Think Barney Henry
was foaled between 1925 and 1880. These
were a prime pair of mares and heavy.
The Kellcutt mare was six years old when
| bought her. She was about the heft of
mine. Barney Henry grew up from a
colt at George Barney's, and was tended
by a young man named Rogers, who,
think, is still alive at the West" A late
letter from Mr. Manchester states that il
was the mare with the white marks, the
one bred by Mr., Bartholomew, that was
the dam of Whitehall.
This settles the breeding of the dam OF
Whitehall, which Mr.. Wallace records il
Vol. of his register as by Cock of the
Rock, and in Vol 4 again records a:
"a bay mare bred by Amos Allen of West
Haven, VT, and represented by him to be
a cross between the Hambletonian ant
Messenger blood" In his magazine Mr.
Wallace has given still third pedigre,
to this mare, saying that she was of Nor
gan and Messenger blood.
In the pedigree as last given by Wal
lace in the Trotting Register, it will b,
perceived, there is no tracing of the mare
bred by Amos Allen and no statement a.
to how Mr.. Manchester got her.
Does Mr.. Wallace want 10 state wher,
he got his information. or doesn't he car,
to defend any of his pedgrees? We pre-
sumo he got it of the same party that fur
nished that of the dam of the Mors,
Horse, and traced Black Maria-"old Pc
ter Comstock's horse jockey" 1t bear
the same ear marks.
We are still inclined to think that tn
balance of proof is in favor of Barne,
Henry's having been by Signal rattle
than by Longs Henry. 1t has frequent
ly been said that Signal was son o
Henry; it is not impossible that sigma
and Henry were the same horse. We in
tend to trace, if possible, the pedigrees o
Barney Henry. Signal and Henry.