Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-20
THE ORIGIN OF BLUE BULL.

Inc following Is Dy Iar the lnOSt COLI
plete information yet published concern
ing Wilson'S Blue Bull or Little Sam. the
great sire of trotters; and his sire, Old
Sam, hitherto known Jas Pruden's Blue
Bull.
In the November number. 1888, of Wal
lace's Monthly appears the following ed
itorial:
MORE ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF BLUE BULL.
In the fourth volume of the Monthly
we published a very satisfactory investi-
CATION made by E. W. Kittredge, Esq,
of Cincinnati, o., of the origin of the
famous Blue Bull.
Mr.. Kittredge showed exhaustively
that Wilson's Blue Bull was got by Pru-
denis Blue Bull, and that Pruden's Blue
Bull was got by Mornings Blue Bull, for
merly called Ohio Farmer.
This Merring horse was blue roam
with dark stripe on his back, and many
of his colts We're duns with this same
dark stripe.
From this popularity of so many of
his get it appeared conclusive that he was
from stock of horses that ran strongly
to the dun COLOR
1t seemed to be known and conceded,
on all hands, that the original Merring
horse was brought from Pennsylvania.
but the region or locality in Pennsylvania
was not given.
The picture of Wilson's Blue Bull in
the October Monthly recalled Mr.. Kit
tredge's attention to the subject again,
and he writes as follows:
''After writing that article in the
fourth volume of the Monthly, received
a letter from Mr.. M'Gill, the father of
An, a.
of this county.
sold Mr.. M'Gill was then over eighty
years old, and is since dead.
she wrote to me that he knew Merring' s
Blue Bull when he first came to Ohio,
and knew Mr.. Merring WELL and that
Mr.. Merring always represented that the
horse was brought from Chester county,
Pennsylvania. and was of Chester Ball
stock"
This is the first time we have had the
origin of this tribe located, and Mr.. Kit
tredge very naturally asks what we know
about the Chester Ball stock.
1t seems as though we once knew more
about this horse, Chester Ball, than we
know now, and as though we had once
written something about him, but we
cannot now place our finger on it.
There certainly was such horse in
Eastern Penn vlvania about the begin
ming of this century, and we have met
with his name many times, but we are
not now able to give any particulars con-
corning him.
In the same volume of the Monthly.
and. indeed, in the same number. there
is very interesting article from the pen
of DR.. Harvey on family of dun horses
known as the Stanleys, in Delaware and
Chester counties, Pa.
His object is To show tha pprcis IA
the dun color that came from dun mare
that was bred to imp. Rodney about the
beginning of this century.
Now, as no man in the world enjoys a
little investigation better than DIR. Har.
vey, especially if it results in the dis,
covery of something valuable, we viii
suggest to him how he can crafty the
readers of the Monthly very much.
He is not very far from the county
seat of Chester county, and he could
probably find some old files of Chester
county newspapers, covering the periot
of the closing years of the last and the
opening of the present century.
AS stations of that period were adver
tised in the Lancaster county papers, i
is likely they were also advertised in tn,
same way in Chester and Delaware coun
ties.
Among those advertisements NAV b,
found the progentors of the dun-coloret
tribe and also the horse Chester Ball, tn,
probable progenitor of Blue Bull in tn,
right male line.
As southeastern Pennsylvania fur
nished its full quota of emigrants t,
western Pennsylvania and Ohio, it i
just possible that the mysterious dun pa
GERS may have been taken from there.
The following is from an article il
Wallace's Monthly for July, 1884.
LETTER FROM ELIJAH STONE.
STONES CROSSING, johnson Co., Ind, |
April Z, 1884.
Mr.. WALLACE.
Dear Sir Yours Of 10Th Of March T.
the postmaster at Stones Crossing is be
fore me, and seat myself to try to an