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that this was a mistake. (He appears to have alternated in his* 

 services between Lewis and Jefferson counties, but whether 

 weekly or yearly I cannot state. He was taken to Lowville as 

 early as 1815 and was there five or six years.) 



The facts about this horse, have been developed from much 

 correspondence with different parties, but more especially from 

 Mr. V. Sheldon, of Canton, New York, and from Mr. P. F. 

 Daniels, of Prescott, Ontario. Both men knew the horse person- 

 ally, and Mr. Daniels was seventy-five years old when he wrote. 

 He still had a very clear recollection of the horse in his appear- 

 ance and style of action. In describing him he says: "He was 

 peculiarly marked about his hocks and knees, having a series of 

 dark rings about his limbs, continuing at intervals down to his 

 hoofs, and many of his sons and daughters were marked the 

 same way." Having ridden him many times he says: "He 

 had a long flinging step and was a fast trotter. His action was 

 high and not easy to the rider, and he could not widen behind 

 as some of our modern trotters." 



When Mr. Daniels was a young man he was engaged in carry- 

 ing the mail, and in March, 1821, he believes it was, Judge 

 Ogden gave him an order to bring the horse home from Lewis- 

 County. He led him all the way behind his mail conveyance 

 and delivered him safely to young Mr. Ogden, who gave him to- 

 an Irish groom named Daley, and Daley remarked he would soon 

 make him look like another horse. That night he gave him an 

 overfeed of corn and he died of colic. He was never advertised 

 while at home and he was not very liberally patronized. The 

 Freemans and the Archibalds, however, Mr. Daniels says, bred 

 to him largely. His stock were good and many of them excel- 

 lent, especially those descended through his sons Blossom and 

 Freeman's Messenger. 



MAMBRINO (GREY). This son of Messenger was foaled about 

 1800, his dam was by Pulaski, grandam by Wilkes; great-gran- 

 dam by True Briton. He was bred by Benjamin C. Ridgeway, 

 near Mount Holly, New Jersey. In 1807 he stood at Flemington 

 under the name of Fox Hunter. He was purchased by Eichard 

 Isaac Cooper, who resold him to William Atkinson for about one- 

 thousand two hundred dollars. He was a flea-bitten grey, mane 

 and tail white, handsome and stylish, about sixteen hands high, 

 head medium size, and a good, well-formed horse at every point, 

 except his feet, which were big and flat. He was probably never 



