Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-11-13

country dances and froicking generally
with all, he drank too much
The horse Bush Messenger was
thoroughbred. As have said, the
horse had all that he could do in the
stud at home, but for exercise he would
lead him one day in the week to East
Bloomfield and the next to Egleston's
Mills, two miles further on; then over
to Aliens Hill, three or four miles
south, and round by Baptist Hill (Bris-
tod to Bristol Centre, home. Every
year Mr.. Reynolds raised colts by his
horse, most of which he sold East as
entire horses. Later, he took up his
Indian exhibitions East, and paid the
chiefs of the tribes (from whom he got
his bucks and squaws) in stud colts by
his horse Bush Messenger. One of
these colts, a four-year-old. which he
had paid to a chief in Genessee Co., be-
came later the property of Colonel
Churchill near Batavia. The old horse
broke his neck in July, 1929. In 1885
two of his colts went to Michigan, and,
still later, Mr.. Reynolds took two of
them to Milwaukee. where he had a
brother who acted as a horse doctor.
My diaries will give from fifteen to
twenty entire horse colts by Bush
Messenger, which were sold away from
East Bloomfield, east and west. two of
which went to kentucky but all efforts
from $50 upon my part failed to locate
one of them. Mr.. Reynolds books. pa
pers and records of all kinds were des-
troyed.
Judge Josiah Porter of Bloomfield
married for his second wife the daughter
of Mrs Huntington's stepfather and he
interested himself for me to trace up, if
possible, through his acquaintance the
sons of Bush Messenger, as did other
prominent old gentlemen: but it proved
fruitless. The only four which could
be located, ecen IN States. were the two
which Edward Reynolds took to the
State of Michigan and two which he sent
or took to his brother at Milwaukee.
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my old diaries They were good horses.
and greatly sought after at any price
the farmers put upon them. 1t was the
same with the offspring of Young Mes
senger or "Detiance'', owned by Colonel
Edward Sawyer of Canandaigua. When
Reynolds brought Bush Messenger to
Bloomfield, Colonel Edward Sawyer
went to Philadelphia and bought Young
Messenger by imported Messenger to
stand in competition with Bush Messen-
ger; and he, too. did large stud bust
nees, as Young Messenger. until after
the Morgan abduction. in which Colonel
Sawyer was directly associated: after
which lin 1929 the public at large gave
him ana his horse the cold shoulder, and
it was then he changed the name of his
horse from Young Messenger to DE
fiance;" for he (Sawyer) detied public
opinion.
In 1888 Thomas Weddle brought from
England to East Bloomfield the thor
oughbred "Humphrey Clnker" and
three mares, "Turk" and three mares
and the draught horse Alfred and three
mares (Which horse is called in our
Trotting Stud registry thoroughbred).
Humphrey Clinller and his three mares
went to Hon. Henry Clay's sons in Ken
lucky, as did the horse Turk, later ON.
(This horse "Turk" figures as Il thor
oughbred in trotting horse pedigrees.
when he was simply an English coacher,
called today Cleveland Bay).
Many from kentucky came to East
Bloomfield for brood stock, among them
| remember Gen. Dudley, reputed as a
relative of X. \. Alexander Gen. bud
ley took some Turk mares, but mostly
Alfred mares, crossed with Bush Mes
senger. As rule, the Bush Messengers
were leggy, light-boded horses, hence
the farmers bred them to Weddle's Al
fred "a Shire horse of today.
Harrison Clay by Henry Clay was out
of mare combining the blood OF both
Bush Messenger and Defiance INBRED to
imported Messenger. Harrison Clay
was born PAGER, often doing half
mile in one minute 30 years ago.
Ashland by Henry Clay was out of an
interbred Morgan mare, and when four
years old, hitched to top wagon, was
roaded 30 miles in two hours and ten
minutes, returning the distance, after
an hours, rest, in about the same time.
dolly Spanker'', the dam of Geo.
Wilkes, was bred in the same district.
and was bred in the same way by Henry
Clay out OF an interbred Morgan mare.
Castle Boy was by Annastur, by Cham
pion out of mare by Henry Clay and
whose dam was an interbred Morgan
mare. There was no country where one
could study blood influences better than
in Ontario county. The early settlers
were the very best of New England
blood and were workers. They knew
what good horses were, and had the very
hest of blood I'm StalIionc and r,o,o,