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master. The late Mr. Edwin Thorne made a statement a few 

 years ago that in an interview with Azariah Arnold he said that 

 he did not know or remember the horse that was the sire of the 

 dam. At that time Mr. Arnold was very old, and doubtless his 

 mental faculties very much impaired, so it would not be remark- 

 able that he should have forgotten all about it. On the other 

 hand, Nelson Haight, Daniel B. Haight, Seth P. Hopson, and 

 others of like high character, maintain that Mr. Arnold, in his 

 younger days, always represented the mare to be by Paymaster, 

 and the name of the horse itself is very strong evidence that he 

 did so represent it, and is a standing proclamation to that effect. 

 There can be no possible doubt that in earlier life Mr. Arnold 

 constantly represented this mare to be by Paymaster; neither can 

 there be any reasonable doubt that when his faculties were im- 

 paired with age he told Mr. Thorne that he did not remember 

 her pedigree. Mr. Arnold's neighbors all agree that he was a 

 man of unblemished character and incapable of a willful misrepre- 

 sentation, when in possession of his faculties. Again, that this 

 Paymaster cross was not only possible, but probable, is shown by 

 the fact that imported Paymaster was kept by Ebenezer Haight, 

 in the year 1807, in the same township with Azariah Arnold, and 

 the years 1808 and 1809 in the same part of the county. There- 

 fore, Mr. Thorne to the contrary notwithstanding, I have but 

 little doubt that the Paymaster cross is correct. 



He had a small star in his forehead and a little white on one 

 hind foot, His back, loin and hips were altogether superior, and 

 those who knew him best say they never saw his equal at these 

 points. His head was large and bony, with an ear after the 

 Mambrino model. His neck was of medium length and his- 

 shoulder good. His hind legs were quite crooked and too much 

 cut in below the hock in front, giving the legs at that point 3r 

 narrow and weak appearance; his hocks were large and at the 

 curb place showed a fullness. His cannon bones, all round, were 

 short for a horse of his size, and his feet were excellent. He was 

 slow in maturing, but when he filled out he lost all that narrow, 

 weedy appearance which characterized his colthood. He was not 

 beautiful, but powerful. 



About 1828 he was sold and taken to Binghamton, New York. 

 Meantime his colts came forward and proved to be so valuable 

 that Nelson and Daniel B. Haight and Gilbert Jones purchased 

 and brought him back to Dutchess County about the year 1840. 



