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him and he was returned to Muscatine, where he remained till 

 January, 1877, when he was sold to George A. Young, of Leland, 

 Illinois, and died January, 1880. 



He left seventeen trotters in the 2:30 list; twenty-four sons 

 that were the sires of fifty-nine standard performers, and thirty- 

 four daughters that produced forty-four standard performers. A& 

 his sire never amounted to anything either as a trotter or a getter 

 of trotters, it is fair to conclude that whatever merit he possessed 

 was inherited from the same source that made Hambletonian 

 greater than all others. 



BELLE, the dam of Bashaw, 50, was a brown mare about 

 fifteen and three-quarter hands high, with tan muzzle and flanks 

 and some white feet. She was rather short in the body and 

 neck, but she was very stoutly built and had been a fine road 

 mare. She was bred by Charles Kent, the butcher, and I think 

 was following her dam when Mr. Jonas Seely bought her. She 

 was foaled 18-43 and was got by Tom Thumb, a Canadian horse, 

 and a trotter that was brought into Orange County by William 

 Webber and left excellent stock. Her dam was the Charles Kent 

 mare, the dam of Hambletonian. She produced as follows: 



1848. Bay gelding, by Abdallab. 



1849. Bay filly Seely Abdallab, by Abdallab. 



1851. Black colt Seely's Black Hawk, by Long Island Black Hawk. 

 1853. Bay filly, (taken West) by Hambletonian. 

 1855. Black colt Green's Basbaw, by Vernol's Black Hawk. 

 1857. Bay filly by Black Hawk Propbet, son of Vermont Black Hawk, in 

 Iowa. This filly v. as ringboned, and given away. 



Nothing is now known of the gelding by Abdallah. The filly 

 of 1849 by Abdallah, called Seely Abdallah, was owned by Mr. 

 Charles Backman, and he had her produce for two or three 

 generations. 



The black colt by Long Island Black Hawk of 1851 was sold to 

 Ebenezer Seely, and kept as a stallion. This Mr. Seely died in 

 Chemung County, and the horse died there in the spring of 1859. 

 The filly of 1853 by Hambletonian was one of a pair of Hamble- 

 tonian fillies bought and taken to Iowa by Mr. Green in 1855. 

 They developed a very fine rate of speed. 



