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During the same year several other cows were 

 imported into Massachusetts by Messrs. Lee, 

 Orr, Monson, and perhaps others, most of them 

 being purchased from the Wetherell herd. 

 Among these were Tuberose, by North Star 

 (460), and Harriet, by Denton (198), a son of 

 Comet. The latter was described as a very 

 fine cow, nearly white in color. In 1823 and 

 1824 Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin of the British 

 Navy, who was born in the State of Massachu- 

 setts, sent out to the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural Society the roan bull Admiral (1608) and 

 the red-and-white cow Annabella, by Major 

 (398), also from the Wetherell herd. A numer- 

 ous progeny claim descent from these animals. 

 In another shipment he sent the white cow 

 Blanche, by a son of Comet ; Snowdrop, by 

 Fitz Favorite (1042), and the heifer Emma, by 

 Wellington (683). 



Reference is made in the American Herd 

 Book to a bull called Fortunatus, or Holder- 

 ness, as having been bred by George Faulkner 

 and imported by Gorham Parsons, Brighton, 

 Mass., in 1818. We cannot identify him. 



In 1828 Mr. Francis Rotch of New York, who 

 was then in England, shipped to his brother-in- 

 law Benjamin Rodman, New Bedford, Mass., 

 the bull Devonshire (966) and the cows Ade- 

 liza, Dulcibella and Galatea, all from the herd 

 of Mr. Whitaker, all roans, all possessing good 



