24 THE ORANGE COUNTY 



AMERICAN STAR. 



Was a sorrel horse, with star and snip in forehead, two 

 white feet behind, above the pasterns, and about fifteen 

 hands high. 



PEDIGEEE. 



American Star was sired by American Star, he by Cock 

 of the Rock, he by Durock, and he by Romp; Romp by im- 

 ported Messenger. His dam was by the racehorse, Henry; 

 grandam by Messenger. 



That his dam and grandam were both thoroughbreds 

 there is no doubt. His pedigree we shall try to prove, to- 

 gether with his history. For the last five years, the pedigree 

 of the celebrated horse, American Star, has been a subject of 

 much controversy, so much so, that we have taken much 

 time and trouble to furnish a correct history of him. Tho 

 great value attaching to the progeny of this horse, in the first 

 and second generations, makes it of the utmost importance 

 that breeders should have exact and reliable information as 

 to the blood he possessed. Fortunately, in our travels 

 through Orange, Ulster, and Columbia Counties, in New 

 York, and through a greater part of New Jersey, we think 

 we shall be able, clearly and unmistakably, to give a correct 

 and reliable pedigree and history of the horse, American 

 Star, and supply every link in the chain from the day he was 

 foaled, the property of Henry H. Berry, Esq., of Pompton 

 Plains, Morris County, New Jersey, in June, eighteen hun- 

 dred and thirty-seven, until he died, the property of Theo- 

 dore Dusenberry, of Goshen, in February, eighteen hundred 

 and sixty-one. Henry H. Berry sought this horse while 



