The Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - - Old rose 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, old rose facings 



MASTER - - Simon Delbert, Esq. 



SECRETARY William H. Corlies. Esq., Media, Pa. 



HON. HUNTSMAN - - _ Samuel Pinkerton, Esq. 



HON. WHIPPERS-IN — - — \ '"' ^- ^P^"^^ Haiyey. Esq. 



( 2nd, A. L. Hawkins, Esq. 



HOUNDS - - - 25 couples, American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Media, Pa. 



DAYS OF MEETING Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON November 1 5th to March 17th 



THE first organized Hunt Club in America was, it is thought, 

 the Brooklyn Hunt Club, mention of which has been made in 

 the article on the Meadow Brook Hunt. The first organization, 

 however, of which we have accurate records, is the Gloucester Fox Hunt- 

 ing Club, the initial meeting of which was held on December 1 3th, 1 766, 

 in the old Philadelphia coffee-house, at the northwest corner of Front and 

 Market streets. It was largely attended, the membership of the Club, 

 organized at that meeting, containing about 1 25 names, among them such 

 well knowTi ones as Benjamin Chew, Charles and Thomas Willing, James 

 Wharton, Thomas Mifflin, Israel and Robert Morris, John Cadwalader, 

 Richard Bache, Col. Thomas Heston, Joseph Penrose, Joseph Bullock, 

 John Dunlap, Isaac Cox, Thomas Leiper and James Caldwell, of Philadel- 

 phia ; and of New Jersey, Gen. Wilkinson, Gen. Franklin Davenport, Capt. 

 James B. Cooper, Capt. Samuel Whitall, Col. Joshua Howell, Col. Thomas 

 Robinson, and Col. Benjamin Flower. 



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