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with, being good for draft, for carriage, for travel, for parade, or any place 

 where horses are required. They had great bottom and strength, and were of 

 hardy constitution. There are some horses in this town twenty -two years old, 

 that were by a son of Winthrop Messenger, which I brought with me when I 

 left Maine. They have always been accustomed to draw the plow and to per- 

 form other hard labor, and yet they have the appearance of young horses, and 

 will now do more service than many horses of seven or eight years old." 



Among the several sons of imported Messenger whose names 

 -are conspicuous as the progenitors of great tribes of the most 

 distinguished trotters I know of no one entitled to a higher 

 place on the roll of fame, all things considered, than this one 

 that went to Maine, and there laid a foundation that has made 

 the State famous throughout the length and breadth of the land 

 for the speed and stoutness of its trotting horses. 



With such noted performers from his own loins as Fanny 

 Pullen and Daniel D. Tompkins, and in the next generation the 

 famous Zachary Taylor, this horse made about the best showing 

 of all the sons of Messenger, but as his line failed to produce a 

 Kysdyk's Hambletonian or a Mambrino Chief, it dropped to a 

 place somewhat removed from the front of the procession. 



ENGINEER was a grey horse, about sixteen hands high and very 

 elegant in his form, style and proportions. The earliest account 

 we have of him is in the spring of 1816, when he was advertised 

 in TJie Long Island Star to stand at the stable of Daniel Seely, 

 near Suffolk Court House, and at Jericho, in Queens County. 

 He was in charge of Thomas Jackson, Jr., generally designated 

 as "Long Tom." He was then well advanced in years, but no 

 attempt was made to give his age. Mr. Daniel T. Cock, in 

 charge of Duroc and one or two other stallions, was then in sharp 

 competition with Engineer, and he assures me he was a horse of 

 large size, great share of bone and sinew, most elegant form, and 

 a fine mover. His elegant appearance was so captivating that he 

 was a very troublesome competitor. 



The advertisement referred to contains the following very 

 unsatisfactory paragraph relating to his pedigree, viz., "The 

 manner he came into this country is such that I cannot give an 

 account of his pedigree, but his courage and activity show the 

 purity of his blood, which is much better than the empty sound 

 of a long pedigree." This was a most unexpected discovery, for 

 I had always understood that Engineer was a son of Messenger 

 and never had heard of this mystery before. It is here intimated 



