Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-12-10

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there then. The old Dart mare was
lighter colored behind than forward. All
that Wainwright used the roam mare for
was to go to mill and about He worked
oxen. | think he put her to breeding
young. | think the three first foals from
her came right along each year; then
think she went spell before she had the
bay FLY; think this was the last she had
Cub was the oldest. sorrel one next. She
was young mare when Cub was foaled.
but | should think over four years old.
IL think the Dart mare got into the
mire out west here and died while Vain
wright owned her. | know it was one OF
Wainwright's horses and am pretty sure
it was She
John j. Kelsey of Salisbury. 7G years
old said Wainwright got the Dart
mare. presume this mare was brought
by Dart from over the mountain. Dart
was here perhaps ten years. They called
her an old mare, Darts old mare. re-
member her when was, say. $ or III
years old: Dart owned her when | first
knew her. She was at our place and
stumbled and stuck "A stub in her nose.
She was what is called iron-gray, but
was lighter colored behind than forward.
She brought roam gray mare for Vain
wright when was nearer fifteen than
ten. | am inclined to think Wainwright
bred this young roam mare himself.
think he had the Dart mare several years
before he bred her. lie kept the young
roam mare and raised these colts from
her. | do not know what became of the
old Dart mare. | presume | was ten
years old when Wainwright got the Dart
mare. guess Dart raised no colts from
her; he could not keep much stock where
he was.
81 remember the Weeks gray mare.
John Burdett brought her in and they
got her and raised colts from her So or 60
years ago.
~ do not recollect as Wainwright
raised any foal but the roam filly from
the Dart mare; think he raised two or
three colts from the roam FLY; one, a
bay mare, he kept many years. re-
member they had a sorrel and another
bay, but think they bought this last
bay. | think the sorrel was older than
the bay they raised. They had one they
called Cub. never knew the Eddy
horse or the Remington horse. | knew
Josiah Darts children well: they came
to school in this district. | think Vain
wright got this mare of Ira Dart 1t
was Ira that had her up here when she
got the stub in her nose. Josiah was
here some time before Ira was: never
saw Josiah. Ira Dart was Il farmer: he
owned "a farm. such as it was. here on the
plains. a little of it cleared before he
bought. Ed. Leno owns the place now.
Carr had it before him. | remember
very near the time Ira came there. There
was Mr.. Allen. who married my oldest
sister, used to work here and he spoke of
Ira Dart, of his being nice man. very
still, etc. Allen married my sister about
the time the roam tilly was foaled; my
sister was born 1900. and was about -
when she was married. 1t must have
been somewhere near that time that
Wainwright got the Dart mare. for Allen
was about only or 3 years and went to
Michigan. Allen came before Dart.
Il IA al
married my sister. Allen married her
the next year after he (Allen) came.
guess Ira Dart did not come till two or
three years after the Aliens came.
know Dart drew hay with his mare one
year on his place and his boy, two or
three wears younger than |, raked after.
1t appears to me that Wainwright used
the roam tilly before she had colts, but |
am not sure
This SRA Dart" who owned the Leno
farm, appears in the town records as
"Erastus Dart" Mr.. Kelsey in another
interview said that Ira Dart had brother
who lived at the glass factory, and whose
children came to school some years be-
fore Ira Dart came in. The Mr.. Allen
mentioned is John Allen, Esq, of Cold
water, Mich, who courteously writes in
reply to our letter to him, as follows:
CoLDwATER, Oct. ~, 1856.
Mr.. w. II. BLISS,
Dedr Sir In answer to your inuuirv
remember the roam mare very well that
my neighbor Dart owned siXty-four years
ago, but do not know anything about the
breeding of the said mare.
LIST. You ask what year was married
to Miss Kelsey. Ans. In February, 1923.
I'd. do not know when Dart sold said
mare to Wainwright.
3D.. do not know where Dart came
from or where the mare was bred.
18th. am in my eighty-SiXth year.
ours, ETC.,
JOHN ALLEN
Mr.. Alanson Wainwright of Brandon.
VT, now in his 18th year, another son of
William Wainwright says: 81 remem-
Der Black Maria. The Dart mare was an
iron gray. Father owned after that
LIGHT GRAY ar Wbita unara I hoI ,l,,,