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thew Patton, Sr., who then resided in Virginia. 

 These cattle I never saw and know but little about. I 

 have heard them spoken of as being large at that day 

 and have always understood that they were the 

 calves of a bull owned by Matthew Patton, Sr., which 

 he purchased of Gough of Maryland, who was an 

 importer of English cattle. I never saw that bull, 

 but have often heard my grandfather (Matthew 

 Patton, Sr.) speak of him. He described him as 

 being very large and of the Longhorned breed. 

 Matthew Patton, Sr., emigrated to Kentucky about 

 the year 1790 and brought with him some six or 

 more cows and calves of the Longhorned bull before 

 mentioned. I knew these cows very well for I saw 

 them almost every day for several years. They 

 were large, somewhat coarse and rough, with very 

 long horns, wide between the points, turning up con- 

 siderably, their bags and teats very large, differing 

 widely in appearance from the Longhorned stock 

 of the importation of 1817. Some of them were first 

 rate milkers. 



1 ' About the year 1795, Matthew Patton, Sr., pro- 

 cured from the beforementioned Gough, through his 

 son, William Patton, a bull called Mars, and a heifer 

 called Venus, both of which were sold by Gough as 

 full-blooded English cattle, but like the importation 

 of 1817, they had no other pedigree. The bull was a 

 deep red, with a white face, of good size, of round 

 full form, of more bone than the popular stock of the 

 present day,, his horns somewhat coarse. The heifer 

 was a pure white except her ears, which were red, 

 of fine size, high form, short crumply horns turning 

 downwards. She produced two bull calves by Mars 

 and died. One of these bulls was taken to the 

 neighborhood of Chillicothe, 0., by William Pat- 

 ton, and the other to Jessamine Co., Ky., by 



