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the age of thirty-three years. She was by Harris' Harabletonian, son 

 of Bishop's Hambletonian, the son of Messenger that was claimed to 

 be thoroughbred, and was at first named Harailtonian. His dam 

 was a grey mare of unknown blood, and since the superiority of the 

 Messenger family became so universally known, and especially this 

 branch of it, attempts have been made to prove that this mare was a 

 daughter of Messenger. 



Some years since, a very intelligent gentleman in the State of Ver- 

 mont, where both of these horses spent their days and were best 

 known, investigated the question with the former owners and keejier 

 of the horse and gave the public a lengthy statement, from which I 

 take the following: 



Harris' Hambletonian was bred by Isaac Munson, of Wallingford, Vt., in 

 1823. Mr. Munson was then in the occupancy of a farm in "Wallingford, 

 owned by a wealthy brother of his, residing in or near Boston, Mass. About 1814 

 he procured and sent up from Massachusetts, for the use of the farm, a pair of 

 gray mares. The season of 1822 Bishop's Hambletonian was standing at East 

 Granville, N. Y., but a few miles distant from Wallingford. Mr. Mimson bred 

 both mares that season to Bishop's Hambletonian. One of them did not prove 

 in foal ; the other, from that service, became the dam of Harris' Hambletonian. 

 Mr. Hiram Eddy then and previously resided in Wallingford with his father, 

 within three-fourths of a mile of the place where the mare was kept, and often 

 saw her. She was a dapple gray, about 16 hands high, a smooth built, trim 

 limbed, and rather stylish mare. She was a good, fair, smart traveler, but it 

 was never claimed or intimated that she was a fast trotter, or very extraordi- 

 nary in that particular. Nothing was said at the time about her breeding, 

 except that she was called an English mare, by which was meant that she 

 possessed some share of thoroughbred blood, which was indicated by her form 

 and appearance. When Harris' Hambletonian was two years old, Mr. Mimson 

 sold him to Messrs. George Eddy, Samuel Edgerton, and Lincoln Andrews, all 

 of Wallingford, by whom he was owned, and allowed to serve mares until he 

 was five years old. 



They then sold him to Samuel Eddy, of Bristol, Vt., and his father, John 

 Eddy, kept the horse for some years at New Haven, Vt. When thirteen or 

 fourteen years old, Hiram Eddy (my informant) and George Eddy bought the 

 horse, and for two years stood him in Wallingford, Danby and Dorset. 

 They then sold him, and he afterward passed into the hands of Joshua 

 Remington, of Huntington, Vt. He stood him in Huntington and vicinity 

 for such a length of time that he became well known, and was commonly 

 called the " Remington horse." 



He subsequently passed into the hands of Russell Harris, of New Haven, 

 Vt., by whom he was owned and kept imtil the time of the horse's death, 

 which occurred in December, 1847. Since the ownership of Mr. Harris he 

 has commonly been called Harris' Hambletonian. Harris' Hambletonian was 

 a horse of great substance, fully sixteen hands high, of the same color as his 



