Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-09

foaled; am not certain but that the old
mare was sucking colt when | was
there that summer.
The Dart breed of great endurance,
very highly spoken of: it was the old
Dart mare foal am sure that Mr.. VAIN
wright had; Dart raised quite number
of colts from her; Mr.. Weeks had one
and Mr.. Howard one, both gray roans.
Mr.. Dart had a daughter, Betsey; it
was the Lake Dunmore Dart that brought
this mare into the country; | think the
family live now at hartford, Green Lake
Co., Wisconsin. Josiah Dart brought the
mare in the old mare was dead in 1885 /;
the other mare must have been seven or
eight years old; VIM. Wainwright drove
her. My brother was married to Mr..
Wainwright's daughter after | worked
there. (The record from the Bible shows
that his brother married VIM. Vain
wright's daughter Dec. 4, 1880. | am
very sure that it was year before he
was married that | worked there; that
would make it 1884; | know that my
brother was not of age the year | worked
there and he was two years older than | /;
my father hired him out to work there !;
he got sick and | took his place; | was
born Sept. 10, 1916; my brother was two
years older; my brother bought bay
horse of the old man. but am very sure
he did not raise him. The gray horse
stopped at Manning's when he kept hotel (;
it was before was Is, for | was in -
county; | must have been 10 or 20.
The Eager horse, chestnut horse, was
called Old Quaker; he had been in the
circus. Would lie down, roll over, would
do most anything think he was a South
ern horse 900 to 1000 lbs; pretty good
neck; good solid limbs. Eager kept him
four or five years think; traded for him
he was just a good fair roadster; got him
self up well; good looking horse colts
were as ugly as sin. staid with Eager
when was II or II years old and went
to school; he had a big bay horse then
did not have Quaker Boy. When father
died in 1888 he had colt by Quaker Boy
that was three or four years Old"
Mr.. - Thomas, 60 years old, and who
has lived since boy within sight of the
Wainwright place, says: 81 think Blacl
Maria was from a horse from the othel
side of the mountain that a man had ovel
here
Mr.. Thomas, who lives south of Franz
Atwood's, says: "My father had bay
Morgan horse that got killed on LAX,
Dunmore. He bought him of Severanc,
about % years ago: owned him three o
four years; | think it is 81 years since h
was killed; very handsome horse, abou
1000 pounds; low, full blood Morgan"
John Race, about 50 years old. says
"Uncle Charles Eager, had a chestnu
stallion he was IA paguey nice horse
Abner Moore had gray stallion that h
got up in Canada and that was called
French horse; this was about "a doe
not remember any other gray stallion il
town."
John p. Kelsey says: "Uncle Charlie
} Eager had a chestnut stallion"
Portus Champlin, Esq, of East MID
dlebury does not remember the Harri
lIambletonian ever standing at Middle
bury, although he remembers him a
having been kept by the Eddys at Ne,
Haven Mills in 1929 as before stated. ii
says McDaniells had the Clifford Morga
and the Cook Horse at the same time
and he thinks this before Cook owned tn
horse He did a large business with then
To be continued.