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At the point where Mr. Tucker's knowledge of this mare ceases, 

 fortunately Mr. Isaac B. Munson, of Wallingford, takes up the 

 history and carries it forward, with great particularity, to the 

 time of her death about 1826. She produced several foals by 

 different horses, and while they were all valuable animals, the 

 only one that is known to history is the subject of this sketch. 

 When Hambletonian of Vermont was two years old Mr. Munson 

 sold him to Samuel Edgerton and others, of AYalliiigford, and 

 they kept him in the stud till about 1828, when they sold him to 

 Mr. Eddy, of Bristol, Vermont, and in the hands of the Eddy 

 family he was kept at Bristol, New Haven, and other points in 

 and about Addison County till about 1835, when he was kept one or 

 two years again in Wallingford and adjacent towns. About 1837 

 he was sold to Joshua Remington, of Huntington, Vermont, and 

 was taken there. He stood in various parts of Chittenden 

 County, and became well known as the "Remington Horse." 

 Unfortunately there is no guide to dates in these transfers and 

 it is not known just how long Mr. Remington owned him. He 

 next passed into the hands of Mr. Russell Harris, New Haven, 

 Connecticut, and remained his till he died late in the year 1847. 



The location of this horse was unfavorable either to a large or 

 to a numerous progeny of trotters. He was surrounded with 

 Morgan blood, trappy and stylish and fast growing in popularity 

 on the supposition that they were trotters a most valuable tribe 

 as family horses, but none of them were able to trot fast without 

 the introduction of trotting blood from the outside. He lived in 

 a period antedating the real development of the trotter and the 

 keeping of records of performances, and hence we must not 

 judge of his merits as a trotting sire by comparing the list of his 

 performers with lists of later generations. Green Mountain 

 Maid was one of the best of her day and made a record of 2:28| 

 in 1853, and the same year the famous pacing gelding Hero 

 made a record of 2:20|. Probably the best trotter from his loins 

 was Sontag, with a wagon record in 1855 of 2:31. This mare 

 was originally a pacer, and whether his dam was by imported 

 Messenger or not we must conclude that the tendency to the 

 lateral action was strong in his progeny. Lady Shannon, 

 Trouble, Vermont, Modesty, and True John were all famous per- 

 formers in their day. The last named was kept in the stud a 

 few years and was known as the Hanchett Horse. He fell into 

 the hands of Sim D. Hoagland, of this vicinity, became ugly and 



