180 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



John Hart of Fayette County for $1,500, and 

 they are said to have left good stock. It thus 

 appears that the foundation of the Short-horn 

 breeding interest in Kentucky and Ohio was 

 laid mainly in the Gough & Miller (Patton) and 

 the Sanders bloods, which were more or less 

 intermingled for a long series of years. 



Massachusetts importations. In Novem- 

 ber, 1817, Samuel Williams of Massachusetts, a 

 merchant, at that time residing in London, 

 purchased of Mr. Wetherell and sent out to his 

 brother Stephen Williams of Northboro, Mass., 

 the bull Young Denton (963). He was a roan, 

 sixteen months old at the time of importation, 

 and was used in Massachusetts for about ten 

 years, after which he was taken to the State of 

 Maine, where he died in 1830. He was consid- 

 ered a very choice specimen of the breed. In 

 1818 Mr. Cornelius Coolidge of Boston imported 

 the bull Coelebs 349 and the cow Flora, both 

 bred by Mason of Chilton and both sired by 

 sons of Comet (155). Mr. Williams sent out in 

 1822 the roan yearling heifer Arabella, by North 

 Star (460) out of Aurora by Comet (155), which 

 was also of Mr. WetherelPs breeding. Her de- 

 scendants, like nearly all other Short-horns 

 tracing to the earlier importations into New 

 York and New England, were distinguished for 

 their excellent dairy qualities. The Arabellas 

 were at one time a large and valuable family. 



