THE AMERICAN PAULARS. 



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and Leonard Bedell, of Shoreham, Vermont, of Andrew Cock, 

 of Flushing, Long Island. Cock purchased all of the original 

 stock and part of the individual sheep sold to them, of the 

 importers. Their Spanish pedigree, the authenticity of which 



MEKINO EWE. 



was attested by a Consular certificate, (undoubtedly Mr. 

 Jarvis', but that fact is not now remembered,) showed them to 

 be Paulars.* They have been bred by John T. Rich, son of the 

 preceding, and his sons John T. and Virtulan Rich, on the old 



* Cock delivered this certified pedigree to Bedell. Letters of the late John T. Rich, 

 Esq., son of one of the purchasers, and of the late Hon. S. H. Jennison, ex-Governor or 

 Vermont, were published in 1844, stating that they had seen this document; and both 

 gentlemen remembered the ewes in the flock certified to be of the original importation. 

 Gov. Jennison says he saw them often between 18SM and 1830. They were very old 

 and toothless. The Hon. Effingham Lawrence, who resided in the same town with 

 Cock, and who was himself a distinguished importer and breeder of Merinos, as well 

 as an old-school gentleman, highly eminent for social position and integrity, wrote to 

 me in 1844: "Andrew Cock * * was my near neighbor. We were intimate and 

 commenced laying the foundations of our Merino flocks about the same time. I was 

 present when he purchased most of his sheep, which was in 1811. He first purchased 

 two ewes at $1,100 per head. They were very fine, and of the Escurial flock imported 

 by Richard Crowninshield. His next purchase was 30 of the Paular breed at from $50 

 to $100 per head. He continued to purchase of the different importations until he run 

 them up to about eighty, always selecting them with great care. This was the 

 foundation of A. Cock's flock, nor did he ever purchase any but pure blooded sheep 

 to my knowledge or belief. Andrew Cock was an attentive breeder ; saw well to his 

 business; and was of unimpeachable character. His certificate of the kind and 

 purity of blood I should implicitly rely on. I recollect of his selling sheep to Leonard 

 Bedell, of Vermont." Much other testimony sustaining the pedigree might be given. 



