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imported horse, but unfortunately we know nothing of the blood 

 of his dam. Mr. Alvan Hayward, for many years a citizen of 

 Kennebec County, Maine, but more recently of York, Livingston 

 County, New York, says his dam possessed some imported blood;, 

 but as all his records and memoranda were burned up in 1845 he 

 is not able to give the pedigree of the mare that produced him. 



Mr. Hayward bought the horse about 1817 or 1818, in the 

 village of Paris, Oneida County, New York, of a man by the 

 name of Rice or Wright, but did not remember which. He 

 took him to Winthrop, Maine, where he was first known as 

 ''Messenger," then as "Kennebec Messenger," or "Winthrop 

 Messenger," and when he became old, as "Old Messenger." The 

 earliest contemporaneous account I have of this horse is his 

 advertisement for the season of 1819, which I copy from the- 

 Hallowell Gazette of May 12, of that year, and is as follows: 



" THE VALUABLE HORSE MESSENGER. 



" The subscriber hereby recommends to the public and all who feel interested 

 to improve in the breed of good and serviceable horses, the good horse Mes- 

 senger, that stock so well known and approved of on Long Island, New York, 

 and Pennsylvania. Said horse was raised on Long Island, and owned by Mr. 

 Ry lander, a gentleman who has taken the greatest pains to import the best 

 breed of horses that came to his knowledge. Said horse is a silver grey, well 

 proportioned, of a large size, and a good traveler. Gentlemen who are desirous 

 of raising good horses will do well to call and see for themselves. 



" The Messenger will stand for the most part of the time in the village at 

 Withrop Mills. ALVAN HAYWARD. 



" Winthrop, May 1st, 1819." 



From the foregoing it will be seen that the new element 

 brought out in the history of this horse is the statement that he 

 was owned at one time by Mr. Kylander, of Long Island. There 

 were two brothers of this name,* and they imported a great many 

 horses, but never before had I heard their names connected with 

 Winthrop Messenger. This carries us back to a period in the 

 history of the horse before he was taken to Oneida County. 



Colonel Stanley, a prominent banker of Augusta, and at one 

 time a leading horseman and stage proprietor, bought Messenger 

 of his kinsman, Hayward, and owned him some seven years. He 

 says the horse was brought to Maine as early as 1816, and that 

 his Uncle Hayward had certificates that he was got by imported 

 Messenger, out of a mare well-bred and part of imported blood. 



In a communication from Mr. Sanford Howard, who had been 



