CHAPTEE XYI. 



ABDALLAHS. 



I PROPOSE in this chapter to speak of several branches of our trot- 

 ting families descended from Abdallah, and not embraced in the family 

 of Hambletonian. 



Abdallah left other sons and many daughters, and through his 

 daughters, especially, several other families have come into distmctive 

 prominence. One of his davighters became the dam of Woodward's 

 Ethan Allen and Daniel Lambert, two stallions that will be noticed in 

 the chapter on Justin Morgan and his descendants; another daughter 

 became the dam of Taggart's Abdallah, to be noticed in the sanje 

 chapter; another daughter became the dam of Dixon's Ethan Allen, 

 also to be noticed in the same chapter; another daughter became 

 the dam, and still another the grandam of the stallion Jupiter Abdal- 

 lah, to be noticed further in this chapter. 



HIS SONS. 



Abdallah left one son known in later years as Spaul ding's Abdallah. 

 He was foaled sometime about the year 1840; his dam was by Star 

 Gazer, son of Engineer. He was bred in the vicinity of the city of 

 New York, and was sold at an early day to Dr. Spaulding, of 

 Greenupsburg, Ky., and was owned for several years by Mr. D. White, 

 of Yates City, 111. He died in the possession of Mr. White about the 

 year 1875, and it was then claimed that he was forty years old. He 

 was a chestnut, and his stock are mostly chestnuts and yellow bays, 

 and nearly every one had a list or stripe along the back, from the 

 withers to the tail. He was sire of John M. Botts that attained some 

 reputation as a trotter. 



Abdallah also left Vansiclen's Abdallah, a bay horse, foaled about 

 1844; his dam was by Hickory, and his grandam by Mambrino, the 

 dam of Hickory being also by Mambrino. If there was any merit in 

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