Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-06-21
VERMONT BOY, PRIDE OF MAINE
THE PARSONS HORSE, ETC.
SAVANNAH, Ga, March 30. Is

SAVANNAH, Ga, March 80, 1899.
MIR. JOSEPH BATTELL,
Dear Sr:-Enclosed please find re-
spouse to yours of Feb. 9. The dates
would Indicate very tardy reply, but
the facts are your letter did not reach me
till today. left North Haven April II
and have not been there since. | have
Just discovered, too late for correction,
that did not read your letter correctly,
and have filled out the blanks for Yer
mont Boy and Coral, whereas | see now
that it is Vermont Boy and Pride of
Maine whose tabulation is wanted. As
you made no allowance for errors in the
number of blanks sent. the best can do
now is to state the facts in my posses
sion in an informal manner (see next
page. believe | have given you all the
facts which possess pertaining to YER
mont Boy and his sire, Pride of Maine.
have carried on quite correspondence
first and last to obtain it, and still it is
not as full as could wish. | would like
to know something of the breeding of
the Parsons Horse, and also be able to
trace the grand-dam of Pride of Maine
back to the supposed breeder, G.. w.
Jewett. The latter | yet hope to accom-
plish, and possibly you may already be
in possession of the former. | gladly
furnish you with what information |
possess respecting Vermont Boy and
Pride of Maine; but please reciprocate
by forwarding me any information you
may have respecting these horses in add-
ton to my own. Respectfully yours,
j. G. SPAULDING.
PRIDE OF MAINE.
Pride of Maine was bay horse, dap
Piled, with large star in the forehead.
and one white hind ankle, black name
and tail weight, 1908 lbs, at four years
old. Pride of Maine was bred by John
}. Look of Pennington, Maine, and foaled
on his farm in that town May l, 1854.
Pride OF Maine was sired by the Eaton
Horse. The dam of Pride of Maine was
black mare called Dinah, weighing
about 1000 lbs. She was bred by Eliab
Lyon, now deceased, at Manchester.
Maine; foaled in 1919 and sired by Young
Indian Chief Uewis Horse. John J.
Look, breeder of Pride of Maine, got Di-
nah of her breeder, Eliab Lyon, in 1852.
when she was three years old. The grand
dam of Pride of Maine was large brown
mare, S. t. b. sired by old Indian Chief.
1t is claimed that one G. w. Jewett of
Readfield, Maine, bred this brown mare ::
that he purchased mare in Boston ex-
pressly to breed to old Indian Chief; that
he bred this brown mare and three 9th
ers from the Boston mare; one of the lot.
very nice one, is said to have been sold
to Coy. Hubbard of Maine for liberal
sum. The brown mare, it is claimed.
was foaled about 1887 have been I'M
able thus far to trace the brown mare
from Eliab Lyon back to the supposed
breeder.
John j. Look sold Pride of Maine to
Thomas Morey and Charles Penoyer
some time in April 1858, and they told
him that they were buying him for an
agricultural society in Compton. Look
says he went as far as Compton with the
colt. | suppose he means the town of
Compton. | think there is both town
of Compton and county of Compton in
Canada. Alonzo Sanborn, now of Bull
wer, p. O., Canada, informs me that
Compton county society sold Pride of
Maine to Messrs. Morey & McNicoll of Ea-
ton, in 1868. Sanborn tended the horse