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breed.' This bull is probably the one called Comet, afterward 

 1382 A. H. B. Said to have been got by either Comet (155) or his 

 brother North Star (458) E. H. B. 



"'No. 4. Bull, Holderness breed, from Mr. Humphreys, got 

 by Mr. Mason's bull of Islington.' No herd-book record appears 

 to have since been made of this bull, and we know not what be- 

 came of him. Mr. Clay states that one of the bulls 4 was sokfto 

 Capt. Fowler, who afterward sold him to Gen. Fletcher, and was 

 taken to Bath Co., Ky., where he died.' 



u Of the females the invoice states that 



"'No. 7 was a heifer from Mr. Wilson, Staindrop, Durham 

 breed.' 



" ' Nos. 8, 9, 10 were heifers from Mr. Shipman, on the river 

 Tees, of his own breed.' 



^' ' In the division of the Short-horns above named Col. Sanders 

 became owner of the bulls San Martin and Tecumseh.' Col. San- 

 ders states that Comet became the property of Dr. Tegarden. 



" ' Of the Shipman heifers No. 7 became the property of Capt. 

 Smith and was called the " Durham Cow." ' 



" ' Of the three remaining two were retained by Col, Sanders, 

 one of which was called "Mrs. Motte" and the other named the 

 "Tees water Cow.'" 



"The fourth heifer died in Maryland, never having reached 

 Kentucky." 



The descendants of the three heifers Mrs. 

 Motte, the Durham Cow and the Teeswater 

 Cow are to this day known as "The Seven- 

 teens," so called from the date of the original 

 importation. Mrs. Motte* produced the four red 



* In view of the large number of descendants of Mrs. Motte throughout 

 the country the following excerpt from a letter written to the author by Mr. 

 William Warfield under date of Feb 21, 1899, may be of interest: "Upon 

 the occasion of Col. Sanders' last visit to my father in the fifties I heard him 

 state the facts as to the naming of Mrs. Motte. At Charleston, S. C., during 

 the Revolutionary War, lived Maj. Motte of the United States army and his 

 family. Mrs, Motte being a very great patriot was much concerned in the 

 destruction of a certain fort which interfered very much with the reduction 

 of the city. She learned that the destruction of a very fine residence which 

 was her own property and which was already in the possession of the 

 enemy would remove the difficulty of reducing this fort. She' presented 

 the besiegers with a quiver of African arrows to be used for that purpose. 

 Skewers armed with combustible materials were also used with more 

 effect." In commemoration of this patriotic sacrifice Col. Sanders gave the 

 name of Mrs Motte to his imported cow. 



