The Genesee Valley Hunt 



(MAJOR WADSWORTH'S HOUNDS) 



DISTINCTIVE UNIFORM Blue coat, green collar, buff facings. 



EVENING DRESS - Scarlet coat, green collar 



MASTER - Major W. Austin Wadsworth 



SECRETARY - H. V. Colt. Esq., Geneseo. N. Y. 



HUNTSMAN - George Poole 



{1 St, John Mahoney 

 2nd, James Totten 

 3rd, Walter Rebban 



HOUNDS - - 27 couples. English 



KENNEl^ AND POST-OFFICE - Geneseo. N. Y. 



DAYS OF MEETING Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON - October 1 5 ih to February 1st 



IN the last ten years of the eighteenth century. General James S. 

 Wadsworth came from Connecticut to the Genesee Valley in western 

 New York, and about this time the Fitzhughs moved to the same region 

 from the South, bringing with them all the southerner's fondness for the 

 sport of fox-hunting. The Wadsworths have increased their property 

 holdings from year to year, each generation doing its utmost to preserve 

 them. 



The farmers in the "Valley" had owned and hunted foxhounds for some 

 lime, but it was not until 1 876 that the Genesee Valley Hunt was formed, 

 and since that time Major William Austin Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y., 

 has been the Master. 



The Genesee Valley Hunt is, and has been since its beginning. Major 

 Wadsworth's private Hunt. He owns the hounds, the kennels, the majority of 

 the coverts, and defrays all expenses of every kind, never taking any sub- 

 scriptions, except to the damage fund, and the Field may be called Major 



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