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probably,), * Witherspoon's Bull,' ' Bluff,' and others. Some pedi- 

 grees in the herd books run back into several of those bulls, 

 which, as many pure-bred crosses have since been made upon 

 their descendants and been recorded in the English Herd Book, 

 must be classed in the family of Short-horns. 



"From the above accounts it is understood where and how the 

 * Patton stock ' originated. There can be no doubt that some of 

 the original importations of Gough & Miller were well-bred cat- 

 tle of the Short-horn or Teeswater breed (which were identical in 

 original blood), but without pedigrees; also that others of them 

 may have been of the Holderness variety coarser and less im- 

 provedof the same race. From the various accounts which we 

 have gathered from different quarters in Ohio and Kentucky 

 some of them were rough animals, tardy in arriving at maturity; 

 others fine both in figure and quality, and most of the cows de- 

 scended from them proved excellent milkers. Their colors were 

 more or less red, white and roan, which are true Short-horn 

 colors. 



"These accounts are about as accurate and as much to the 

 point as the English traditions relating to the ancient Short- 

 horns or Teeswaters in their native land, and may be received as 

 a fair basis on which to found the genealogy of all the pedigrees 

 which trace back into the ' Patton ' blood and are found recorded 

 in both the English and American Herd Books." 



An early New York importation. Tradi- 

 tion is authority for the statement that about 

 the year 1791 a Mr. Heaton, who had emigrated 

 from England to New York in 1775 and followed 

 for some years the occupation of a butcher, 

 returned to England and brought back with 

 him several Short-horn cattle from the herd of 

 George Culley of Northumberland. What be- 

 came of these cattle neither tradition nor writ- 

 ten history of the day records. In 1796 it is 

 further stated that Mr. Heaton returned to 

 England and brought out a bull and cow which 

 he had bought from one of the brothers Colling 



