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enjoyments as could be found in the life of a sportsman (not gambler) of the 

 olden time. He was a bachelor, and resided at the family mansion of the 

 Bootts, one of the finest of its day, remodeled into our crack hotel, for that 

 prince among landlords, the late Paran Stevens, and is the Revere House of 

 to-day. Becoming a great sufterer from some chronic complaint, he went 

 abroad about the year 1833, and died at the house of Dr. Boott, a brother, in. 

 the city of London. 



Col. Jaques was born in Wilmington, near Boston, in 1776, and died in 

 1859, honored and respected by all who knew him, and they were legion. He 

 obtained a competency previous to middle life, and for manj years occupied 

 an elegant residence, with quite a large estate attached, on Washington street, 

 in the then town of Charlestown. In a spacious box-stall, built especially for 

 his comfort, stood Bellfounder, from July, 1833, to December, 1838. In 1831 

 Col. Jaques, having met with severe financial reverses, caused by the failure 

 of a commission house in England, to whom he had made heavy shipmeuts 

 of hops, purchased the celebrated Ten Hills farm, on the banks of the Mystic 

 river, within the confines of Charlestown, and turned his attention to the 

 breeding of first-class stock. 



Mr. Jaques became eminent as a breeder of fine cattle, and in this respect 

 his reputation was national. He also bred many fine horses, and besides Bell- 

 founder, owned or controlled Whistle Jacket, a runner, Sherman Morgan, 

 Black Hawk, Columbus, an imported English dray horse, and some others not 

 worth mentioning. Bellfounder never went to Ten Hills, but was leased by 

 his owner for five hundred dollars per year, and sent to New York in 1838. 

 Under the management of Col. Jaques he did a good business, and left numer- 

 ous colts in New England, some of which were very powerful and fast, but 

 they were all late in coming to maturity, and showed no speed until seven or 

 eight years of age, when they came with a rush. One of these was known as 

 the Lowell colt, and belonged to a gentleman of that name in Salem, who paid 

 five hundred dollars for her at three years of age. At seven she is represented 

 to have been very fast. 



Three sons of Col. Jaques are now living, viz., Samuel, William and 

 George. Samuel, the oldest, is well advanced in years, but, with mental fac- 

 ulties unimpaired, bids fair to last for many years. Their recollection is 

 remarkably clear, and no question can be asked in relation to their father's 

 aftairs which they can not answer at once. William says he rode Bellfounder 

 many times, and always found him level-headed, and gentle as a lamb. He 

 thinks he could trot with perfect ease in three minutes, and keep it up for 

 many miles. He once led him by the side of a running horse fifteen miles, 

 and, to use his own words, " drove as tight as he could most of the way," 

 without Bellfoimder's leaving his feet at all. During the entire distance the 

 halter rojje was always loose, and with head aloft he gazed around as though 

 it was nothing more than exercise. Neither of them know anything of hia 

 history previous to leaving England, other than is expressed in the pedigree 

 herewith, every word of which they religiously believe. The Colonel was 

 possessed of a painting of Bellfounder in trotting action, executed by an artist 

 named Fisher, which he loaned Mr. Boott. While this painting hung in Mr, 



