" CLAYRABIA," AND " CLAYBEALE GRANT." cy 



Were it not for vexing my publishers through annoyance to their 

 compositors and proof-readers, I would introduce a number of genea- 

 logical tabulations, but I have already burdened them beyond an 

 apology. 



It is a lamentable fact that serious errors will creep into print, which 

 lead many breeders to great disappointment; but such errors are un- 

 avoidable. In speaking of the Morgan horse (although I have over- 

 stepped my contract with my publishers as to number of pages), I will 

 tell of one serious error and explain it. Thomas H x Kellogg was born 

 in Sheffield, Massachusetts, in 1773, moving to East Bloomfield, Ontario 

 County, about 1800. He was a large farmer and great horseman ; always 

 keeping one or two stallions for public service. These he would bring 

 from the East (Long Island and New England was then called the 

 East). In 1826 he brought from Boston a son of Justin Morgan that 

 had been raised in Vermont. Mr. Kellogg stood this horse as " Kel- 

 logg's son of Justin Morgan," or as the " Morgan horse." In 1828 the 

 Morgan abduction (Masonic) involved his son-in-law, Colonel Edward 

 Sawyer, of Canandaigua (eight miles distant). Prejudice ran very high 

 against the name of Morgan, so that even the name of Mr. Kelloo-o-'s 

 stallion was a damage to him ; then too, Colonel Sawyer being a son- 

 in-law of Thomas H. Kellogg, his Morgan stallion was in danger. It 

 was advised to change the name ; and as this country was full of Scotch- 

 men, the name of "Highlander" was given to Kellogg's son of Justin 

 Morgan. It was a big move, and as anything brought from the East into 

 this then far West was said to be imported, they soon spoke of Thomas 

 Kellogg's horse as the " imported horse Highlander." By him were got 

 Shelton's Highlander, Paul's Highlander, Baker's Highlander, with in- 

 numerable sons and daughters, and grandsons and granddaughters, to 

 be scattered East and West as by "imported Highlander," and later as 

 by "thoroughbred Highlander;" even the old horse himself went West 

 as " imported Highlander." This is the thoroughbred Highlander blood 

 in the grandam of George Wilkes. These truths I am knowing to, as 

 are plenty of other old men. T. H. Kellogg died in East Bloomfield 

 in 1857, eighty-four years old, and his daughter Mary long resided with 

 my father-in-law. 



In these days I never see the name of " Highlander" in the breeding 

 of any trotting-horse East or West, without wondering to myself whether 

 the blood came from Uncle Thomas Kellogg's son of the Arabian-bred 

 Justin Morgan. There are so many errors in the recorded breedings 

 of noted horses that I am knowing to, as in the above instance, that I 



