The Meadow Brook Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - -- Light blue 



EVENING DRESS - - Scarlet coat, light blue facings 



MASTER - - - Samuel Willets, Esq. 



SECRETARY - - -August Belmont, Jr., Esq., New York, N. Y. 



HUNTSMAN — - - - Michael Hanlon 



WHIPPERS-IN - - - - ^ ' *'' ^'"'*'" Lambert 



( 2nd, James Cosgrove 



KENNELMAN - - Patrick Gibson 



HOUNDS - - - - - 30 couples, EnglUh 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE - - Westbury, Long Island, N. Y. 



DAYS OF MEETING - - - Four days a week 



LENGTH OF SEASON -.- - \ t^'T^^' }^'^[° ■'."""T ''' 



I March 15lh to April 15 th 



FOX-HUNTING on Long Island, of which the Meadow Brook 

 Hunt is to-day the chief exponent, dates from 1 770, when one 

 John Evers maintained and hunted a pack at Hempstead. Horses, 

 hounds and Hunt servants came from England, and among the subscribers 

 to the pack was George Washington, Esq. 



From a notice posted November 1 9th, 1 78 1 , by the Brooklyn Hunt, that 

 "hounds would throw off at Denyse's Ferry, on the estate of Denyse 

 Denyse, Esq., at The Narrows (now Fort Hamilton), at 9 o'clock, Thursday 

 morning and that a guinea would be given for a good, strong bag-fox " and 

 signed — "Charles Loosely," it appears that there was hunting in that vicinity 

 and that such an organization as the Brooklyn Hunt existed. Denyse 

 Denyse, Esq., was the great-grandfather of H. L. Herbert, Esq., who is now 

 one of the prominent members of the Meadow Brook Hunt and has always 

 given to it his most earnest support. The Revolutionary War brought an 



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