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chusetts, instead of from England. The habit of 

 speaking of live stock brought into a state from a 

 distance as " imported " has always characterized 

 many sections of the Union, and in this may lie a 

 possible solution of the mystery attaching to this 

 alleged Maine importation of 1830. It is unfortu- 

 nate that the matter does not seem to have been 

 cleared up before the decease of those who could 

 have given direct testimony. As it is, we can only 

 record Mr. Burleigh's affirmation on the one hand, 

 and on the other present the negative evidence.* 



J. Wingate Haines was an Aroostook Co., Me., 

 pioneer, removing from Hallowell to that portion 

 of the state some time in the '50 's, and taking his 

 cattle with him. He settled at Fort Fairfield, and 

 there are today white-faced cattle in that vicinity 

 descended directly from his stock. 



The New York Importation of 1840. Ebenezer 

 Wilson, a beef packer of New York, had in his 

 employ as a cattle buyer in 1839 a young English- 

 man named William Henry Sotham, a native of 



*Referring to this incident Mr. Geo. W. Haines, a son of J. 

 Wingate Haines, says: 



"I am quite sure that we never had a bull from Sanford 

 Howard, for the first 'white faces' of which I have recollection 

 came from the bull Albany that father bought at New York 

 about the year 1841, as near as I can recollect. This bull was 

 kept at Fayette Mills at Mr. Underwood's for at least one sea- 

 son. I have the impression that he was at Wayne one season at 

 Isaac Bowies'. He went to Anson, and I think was sold to a 

 party there. We moved to Aroostook in 1844 taking quite a lot 

 of cattle and sheep with us, but I do not think we took a pure- 

 bred Hereford bull. Father afterward got a bull calf from Ken- 

 nebec. Father was born in Hallowell about 1807, and died at 

 Fort Fairfield in 1879. I used to be at the Vaughan farm quite 

 often, but don't recollect ever seeing any Hereford cattle there." 



It will be observed that Mr. Haines' recollection as to date 

 when Albany wag taken to Maine varies from Mr. Hewett's. We 

 should think 1841 rather early as the first Sotham importation 

 was not made until 1840. 



