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great Hambletonian family has overshadowed them all. Young 

 Bashaw, after eleven years in the stud along the Delaware River, 

 above and below Philadelphia, died at Morrisville, Bucks County, 

 Pennsylvania, June, 1837. 



ANDREW JACKSOX was the most noted son of Young Bashaw. 

 He was a black horse, fifteen and a half hands high, with three 

 white feet and a strip of white in his face. He was very well 

 formed in every point and was strong, compact, short-legged and 

 handsome. He was foaled 1827, and was bred by Joseph Hancock, 

 of Salem, New Jersey. His dam was a strong, compact black 

 mare that both trotted and paced, and was noted for her speed at 

 the latter gait. This mare was brought in a drove from Ohio, in 

 the spring of 1820 and on the twenty-first of June of that year she 

 was sold to Mr. Hancock, of Salem, New Jersey, for one hundred 

 dollars. He kept her a little over six years, and in the spring of 

 1826 bred her to Young Bashaw, and in the fall of that year sold her 

 to Powell Carpenter; and soon after he sold her to Daniel Jeffreys, 

 -a brickmaker on the Germantown road, near Philadelphia. She 

 was then in foal by Young Bashaw, and the next spring she 

 -dropped the colt that became famous as Andrew Jackson. 



The incidents connected with the history of this mare are here 

 given, perhaps in unnecessary detail, but as Andrew Jackson 

 was very extensively advertised under a fraudulent pedigree from 

 about 1834 till the time of his death, and as I had at one time 

 accepted it as true, it is better that it should be made very plain, 

 especially as I had been severely criticised for changing it. The 

 -correction made, as above, was founded on information received 

 from two separate and distinct sources and both thoroughly re- 

 liable. The fraudulent pedigree of this mare represented her as 

 *"by Whynot, son of imported Messenger, and her dam by Messen- 

 ger" himself. This was just such a pedigree as so great a horse 

 should have had, but there was no truth in it. The attack was 

 led by quite a large breeder in one of the prairie States, who had 

 .a number of animals remotely descended from Andrew Jackson. 

 He did not even pretend to know anything at all about the truth 

 of the matter, but simply urged most vehemently that the pedi- 

 gree should be restored because it was old. The fact of the 

 matter was the man wanted the old lie instead of the new truth 

 maintained because it would help to sell his stock, which was the 

 very object for which the lie was originally invented. 



Daniel Jeffreys was very much addicted to trotting horses, and 



