The Brandywine Hounds 



(MR. MATHER'S) 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR Old gold 



EVENING DRESS -- Scarlet coat, old gold facings 



MASTER - Charles E. Mather, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa. 



HUNTSMAN WiUiam Thompson 



WHIPPEFIS-IN \ l'\ 1°"" ^"li" J, , 



( Znd, Uelmont broadbelt 



HOUNDS - 45 couples, English 



KENNELS Brandywine Meadow Farm 



POST-OFFICE - West Chester, Chester County, Pa. 



DAYS OF MEETING - - Every hunting day 



LENGTH OF SEASON October 1st to April 1st 



)A S early as 1 766, an organized Hunt, known as the Gloucester 

 / ^ Fox Hunting Club, was established in America, starting with a 

 Y m fixed limit of twenty-five members. The organizers of this 

 club were residents of Philadelphia and of the county of Gloucester, 

 across the Delaware River in New Jersey. Its hunting was somewhat 

 irregular, yet was organized along a definite line, and later on hounds 

 went out on Thursdays and Fridays, and the Fields on holidays were 

 large. 



The scant records of its existence indicate that it found plenty of sport, 

 for the company often sat dovm to the hunting dinner with two or even 

 three brushes to their credit ; which can scarcely ever be said of more 

 modern Hunts. The American Revolution, of course, interrupted all reg- 

 ular hunting, but at the close of the war, the original President of the Hunt 

 Club, Samuel Morris, Esq., was re-elected and the club revived. 



Mr. Morris was one of the organizers of the First Troop of Philadelphia 



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