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

L his lHSl lelleG, NHlCll was TtCtlNtu
after last weeks installment of Pedigree
Hunting was in type, was written in re-
ply to a letter stating that there was evil
dence that Warner Cook purchased of
man named Wallace of North West Bay,
in or about the fall of 1871, an old gray
mare for fifteen dollars, to be paid in
corn and potatoes; and asking if he ever
brought home such mare, and if he did
business of that kind at that time.
This letter shows that Joseph Cushman
is mistaken when he says that Wallace
he was "there at the time and heard the
dicker." Mr.. Cushman is recommended
as very reliable man, but he is eighty
six years old and is relating trivial
matter of forty-five years ago. He must
be mistaken as to the man to whom Wal
lace traded her. 1t is impossible to shake
the date on which W. II. Balcom gave
the gray mare to Ira Wallace. 1t was in
the fall of 1871. and at that time Warner
Cook had got past doing business.
Therefore the opinion given last week.
that she passed into the hands of Warner
Cook, is incorrect; but it appears to be
true, as there stated. that when the old
mare passed out of Ira Wallace's hands
she disappeared and at that time Warner
Cook had owned and had the younger
gray mare, the dam of Ethan certainly
one and almost certainly two or three
years.
AFRO VI. Bailey of Ticonderoga has
written that he fixes the time when he
worked for the Messrs. Cook at the War
ner Cook place as the winter of lS4l42,
and says:
Warner Cook or W. II. Cook who did the
business!when was there had but one work.
ing team of horses, aside from II number of
colts from one to four years Old, some of
these they were breaking but not working in
the team. The team was this gray mare, the
mother of Ethan Allen, ana the black mare,
which think he got from Mcintyre, but will
not be postivc-he might possibly have got
her from johnson, but | think not-but the
gray mare, have heard W. V. Cook, brother
OF W. II. Cook, say that she was the johnson
mare, ut the time was there and have talk
ed with W. II. Cook a good many times since,
and he always called her the johnson mare,
and within a few years have heard him say
the same thing.
Mr.. Allen W. Thomson of Woodstock,
VT, writes under date Nov. p, 1855:
| find my minutes say that Curtis Balcom
said that George johnson did not keep his
horses long and think now that he did moi
think he kept the gray mare long. ;. b
Woodland said he thought johnson numbered
one winter with her.
fus Rising of Hague. y. Y. writes that
his father (Rufus RISING moved on tC
the place where he (the writer now
lives in 1889 or 1910; that he was thcl
fourteen or fifteen years old and remem-
bers it WE'LL and that he thinks the hors,
bought in Rupert, VT. was exchanged
by his father at Saltwater. y. Y. for ;
mare and colt about the year 1885 or 1896
Having learned that Mrs. Ann Newton
of Hague is Il daughter of Ira Wallace
Il letter was addressed to her asking wha
became of the white or light gray mar,
which her father had of William ii. Bal
com some forty-four years ago. Thi,
letter was answered by Mr.. Rising a
| follows;
HAGUE, y. Y, April D, 1ssG
Mr.. BLISS,
Sir:-Yours of the 18th inst. to Mrs Am
Newton was received. She wishes me Il
write You that her father never owned hors
to her knowledge; that he used oxen; tina
her uncle Nat. Wallace owned n gray mar
and sold, or let his son Richard Wallace hav
il. Richard went to Rosendalc, Wis., and die
there, and his widow, think, is still living.
| saw in THE REGISTER that Warner Coo
bought the gray mare about 1899 or 40. | Il
not recollcct a. to whether father sold such
mare to Warner Cook, but know that in tn
year 1889 or lS40 he rented farm in posse,
sion of Warner Cook; whether he let hiI
have the mare or not, cannot tell.
Yours truly,
RUFUS RISING.
We had previously correspOnded wit
the widow of Richard Wallace, now liy
llS 1T lIb>tHUdlt. W L., ana ndu TtCelNe
from her this reply;
Dear ST;-I received n few lines from You
few days ago, asking information about gra
mare we used to own. MI Wallace had ht
of Everett Pond from Whiting, VI, and Ii
sold her To Benager A ckerman in Hague. 81
was good horse, a slow walker but ia
trotter.
Mrs. :. e.. WALLACE.
Jan. p, l>s6.
y. l.. Glazier of Waltham. Mass, is
son of John Glazicr and was born
Hague, N Y, in 1880, from which tow
he thinks they moved in 1910. He writ,
under date Dec. /. 1855.
l do not know anything about the gra
mare, only have often heard my father IL
about II gray mare and black one that
owned, and of driving them across Lal
George, and how quick they went
Mr.. F. Atherton of Argo, H., nephe
of Charles Atherton, who brought II
gray horse from Claremont, n. H., to I
writes under date Feb. s, 1856;