Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-07-12
PADDY.
from American Cultivator. !

The old Boston CULTIvATOR of Nov.
20, 1862, contains an article from the pen
of the late Sanford Howard, man deep
ly interested in fine stock, and who was
then agricultural editor of the Cultivator.
This article contains the following eX-
tract from letter written to Mr..
Howard by John Bellows, dated at
Exeter, n. H., Feb. 6, 1856: "ln rela
ton to the horse called Paddy" says Mr.
Bellows, 81 purchased him in the month
of July, 1929, and kept him as teaser
to Sherman Morgan in 1880. | sold him
to George Boutwell, of northumberland,
n. H., in the autumn of 1880, and never
owned or kept him day afterwards.
Boutwell, sold him somewhere in the
State of Rhode Island in 1881, as am in
Formed
1t will be noticed that Mr.. Bellows is
positive concerning the dates when he
bought and sold Paddy, as well as the
name and residence of the party to whom
he sold the horse. In regard to the sale
of the horse by Mr. Boutwell,, Mr.. Bel
lows says he was informed that such
was the case. In letter written by Mr..
Bellows to Z. II. Hoffman, Esq, Lyndon,
VT, in 1879 (twenty-four years after the
above was penned), replying to a ques-
ton asked him Mr.. Hoffman concerning
the story that Paddy got Black Hawk,
Mr.. B. wrote: 81 had sold Paddy two
years before Black Hawk was got, and
he had gone to Rhode Island, believe"
Mr.. Hoffman informs us that he lately
learned from member of the Boutwell,
family that George Boutwell, then had a
son in Rhode Island who was in livery
stable either as proprietor or employee
Mr. Boutwell, doubtless sent Paddy to
this son, as stated by MIR. Bellows. We
have made no effort to trace the horse in
Rhode Island, for as he never got dis
tinguished animal in his life his history
is not of the slightest interest to any one
Mr. Bellows, as we have already stat
ed, was very methodical business man
During an interview with him some year:
since, he remarked that his old STUD
books had been carefully preserved, and
were still in existence somewhere among
his old papers in New Hampshire. We
have at last succeeded, after the eXpendi
ture of considerable time and money, il
obtaining possession of several of these
including those of Paddy and Sherman
Morgan. These books corroborate the
above statements of Mr.. Bellows in every
particular. Among the papers is a note
which Mr.. Bellows evidently took from
Mr.. Boutwell, in part payment for Paddy
This note is dated Aug. o. 1880, which
was doubtless the exact date when Paddy
became the property of Mr.. Boutwell,
Only two mares were bred to Paddy il
1929 after Mr.. Bellows bought him.
During the season of 1880 Paddy re
celved in all eleven patrons owned by tn,
following parties: Humphrey Grant
Berwick, David Odiorne, Somerswortl
(the latter's mare was blind); Oliver S
Horne, Dover; Stephen Chesley, Mad
bury; Thomas Ross, Gilmanton; JOSEPH
Elliot, Madbury (white-faced mare) VIII
liam Hight, South Berwick Noble
mare) John Wheeler, Dover (old mare)
William Stinson, Portsmouth; Andrew
Goodwin, South Berwick, and Stephe
Morse, Holderness. The terms ranges
from So to 81 to warrant. Some ar
charged S., others 81, and others 8