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Edmond gave him away to Theodore Dusenberry, who 

 took him on the farm of Hudson Duryea, near Goshen, 

 where, out in a field, in February, eighteen hundred 

 and sixty-one, he died. His last set were foaled in 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-one : and we simply men- 

 tion this from the fact that many are offering to sell 

 Star Mares foaled in eighteen hundred and sixty-one. 

 And that none may be deceived, we will state that Uncle 

 Edmond owned and had a colt sired by Star, called 

 " SIK HENRY," who made the same season at the same 

 stable, but at a much less price for service. This may 

 be substantiated by any one calling on John Smith, in. 

 Goshen, who holds the books of the ten years' service 

 under Uncle Edmond Seeley, and eight years of the 

 time his father Hiram Smith being a partner. AMERI- 

 CAN STAR passed through many hands, was generally 

 neglected and ill treated ; trotted in his day, many 

 races, principally on the road or ice, consequently left 

 no very fast record. No horse ever lived that more 

 certainly stamped upon his offspring his own charac- 

 teristics of gait, disposition sod bottom, than did American 



