Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-10


times Zone pedigree is repeatedly. Twice
it is correct, ten times it is certainly false,
and three doubtful.
Now we will make the following prop
osition to Mr.. Wallace or to the American
Trotting Register Co.. If they will prove
the dams of Sea Foam, Young Columbus.
Cuyler and Stilson, Hotspur, Jack Stew
art, Major Edsall, Panic and Morse
Horse to be rs they state them to be in
their Year Book, and we believe through
out all their works, by Harris Hamble-
tonian, we will give them $500, and if
they will prove Hero to he by the same
hon Sc, as they state him to be, we will add
500 more, making it 5000. Or if they
will prove either one of the above to be by
the Harris horse, as they thus state them
without any qualification to be, we will
give them 500, and 800 for each one
that they so prove of the above nine; and
if they prove that Lady Shannon, Annie
G.. and Nellie IIolcomb are by this horse,
as they make positive statement that they
are, we will give them 800 more.
We leave it for the intelligent reader
to decide how much value, or what kind
of value, Il great table" of trotters has
where in the pedigrees that connect with
single horse thirteen out of fifteen are
false.
We come now to the case in question:
the grandam of Black Flying Cloud. This
mare was purchase of Chas. Howe, Brid-
port, VT, by Solomon W. Jewett. The
only statement that we know of about
her breeding that is entitled to any re-
| spect, comes to us in letter from Solo
mon w. Jewett, dated March 4, 1855. in
Liberty sired Black Flying Clouds grand
daru, and that Black Hawk sired his dam.
In the same letter he says: "I bought Dol
! ly of Chas. Howe; she would weigh
about 100 lbs. and was bright bay with
white ma. in her face and two white
feet" Mr.. Jewett did not in this letter
state who bred the mare nor what proof
he had of the fact she was by Liberty.
But as Mr.. Jewett was an especially in
telligent breeder, and bought the mare
solely for breeding purposes, it is highly
probable that he got her pedigree cor
rectly, and that she was got by Smiths
cold Liberty" Smiths Liberty was q
very noted horse; one of the most so in
tins section of his day. He was a bay
horse, of good proportion. at least l5l
hands i'm height and 100 lbs. weight. IL,
was bred by Jacob Smith, Addison. VT.
and foaled the property of Thomas Kings
land also of Addison. Mr.. Asa Hemen
way of Brdport, VT, thought that h'
was got by colt of the Carter mare
and at one time, as Mr.. Hemenway ha
always been very much of horseman, W,
were inclined to accept this, but we arr
The best testimony about the horse come
from Nathaniel Kingsland, son of Thoma
Kingsland, who, in an interview we ha,
with him in the fall of 1885, said 81 wa
was three or four years old at a trainin,
in Middlehury. | must have been abou
10 years old the horse was foaled abou
1910. Father traded him to Allen Smitl
when about five years old for Il pair o
gray mares. The dam of Liberty was
large brown mare pretty well made
would weigh 1000 to 100 lbs; don
know whether Jacob Smith raised her o
not she was young mare and Libert,
was her first colt. My father bought he
of Jacob Smith. do not know abou
the Carter mare. Jdc0b Smith said
,cas an English horse that got Liberty"
Mr.. Elmer Jones of Shorehan., gen
tleman of about the same age of MI
kingsland, of excellent memory and al
his life Il horseman, told us that h
thought Smiths Liberty was got b.
King William owned by Col. Doolittle
This statement of Mr.. Jones we hay
found curiously sustained in severa
{ old advertisements which state tina
Liberty was got by Doolittle's Pos
Boy. AS Dooittles Post Boy did nc
come to Vermont before 1920 he cOul
not have got Liberty, but Doolittle'
King William must have been owne
{ by Mr.. Doolittle at the right time, wa
| what was called an English horse, bein
{ son of imported King William an
t was owned near to where Liberty wa
bred. 1t seemed at least highly proba
(; BILE that he was the sire, but whethe
4 he was or not, the record of Mr.. Wallac
| in his books that this horse Liberty was b
q Bishops Hamiltonian is as grotesquel
: absurd, after the facts are known, a
< though it read that he was by the Goo
e olphin Arabian. Bishops Hamilton
ian was foaled 1904 or 6. He was own
e ed on Long Island and whatever stu
: service he did before the birth of Libel
S ty, if any, was done on Long Island c
f that immediate vicinity. The conceI
. ton that poor farmer or any farme
n of that dav i'm Addison VI cant n ma,