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mid another word to this "Andalusian" origin tradition, except 

 to say that a hundred years later, when the pacing dam of Sher- 

 man Morgan was taken from Cranston, Rhode Island, up into 

 Vermont, she was called a "Spanish mare," because Mr. Hazard 

 had said the original Narragansett had come from Spain. The 

 story of the descendants of the Narragansetts having been car- 

 ried from the West Indies to England, and there introduced 

 under the name of the Spanish Jennet as a lady's saddle horse, is 

 wholly imaginative. The Spanish Jennet, whatever its gait may 

 have been, was well known in England many years before the 

 first horse was brought to any of the American colonies. (See 

 extracts from Blundeville and Markham in Chapter XII.) 



After several years of fruitless search for some trace of the 

 early importations of horses into the colony of Rhode Island, I 

 have reached the conclusion that probably no such importations 

 were ever made. The colony of Massachusetts Bay commenced 

 importing horses and other live stock from England in 1629, and 

 continued to do so for several years and until they were fully 

 supplied, as stated above. In 1640 a shipload of horses were ex- 

 ported to the Barbadoes, and it was about this time that Rhode 

 Island began to assume an organized existence. Her people were 

 largely made up of refugees from the religious intolerance of the 

 other Xew England colonies, and they brought their families and 

 effects, including their horses, with them. The blood of the 

 Narragansett pacer, therefore, was not different from the blood 

 of the pacers of the other colonies, but the development of his 

 speed by the establishment of a pacing course and the offering of 

 valuable prizes, naturally brought the best and the fastest horses 

 to this colony and from the best and fastest they built up a breed 

 that became famous throughout all the inhabited portions of the 

 Western Hemisphere. The race track, with the valuable prizes 

 it offered and the emulation it aroused, was what did it. As the 

 question of origin is thus settled in accordance with what is 

 known of history and the natural order of things, and as the Nar- 

 ragansett is the great tribe representing the lateral action then 

 and since, we must consider such details of history as have come 

 down to us. 



The Rev. James McSparran, D.D., was sent out by the Lon- 

 don Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, to 

 take charge of an Episcopal church that had been planted some 

 years before in Rhode Island. He arrived in 1721, and lived till 



