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came, beyond a doubt, tlirougli his dam, as I am certain there was no such 

 tendency in the family of Mambrino Paymaster; his get were most uniformly 

 a rich, dark bay, with blacli points; the color of the produce of Mambrino 

 Chief's dain was variable, Goliah being a dark bay, the Chief a dark brown, 

 while the next (known as the Cox Horse) was a light bay with three white 

 legs, high up, and a white face, the only one I ever saw so conspicuously 

 marked. The dam of Mambrino Chief was brought to our town by Mr. 

 Nicholson. I saw her the day she arrived with many others. She was bought 

 some fifty or sixty miles west of Kingston. She was a large, coarse, brown 

 or black mare, I think, without white marks, at least not conspicuous. I saw 

 her almost every week for ten years. G. G. Shakpstein. 



I also insert a letter from Col. Stevens, well known also in every 



part of the country: 



PouGHKERPSiE, .July 84th, 1876. 

 Inclosed is a letter from Mr. G. G. Sharpstein, an old resident of Washing- 

 ton Hollow (about 15 miles east of here in this county.) He is well informed 

 in all matters pertaining to the stock horses of this section, and I will give 

 you some of the points drawn from him in course of conversation. He knew 

 the man Nicholson, who brought the drove of horses in which Mambrino 

 Chief's dam came to "Washington Hollow. He says that Nicholson was 

 absent but little time after the drove. He went on horseback, and could not 

 have gone far. Nicholson undoubtedly came through the Wallkill Valley, 

 from off toward the Pennsylvania line, which was " out West " in those days. 

 Wallkill Valley terminates about Kingston, where Nicholson crossed the 

 Hudson to Rhinebeck, and went with his drove, via Pine Plains, to Washing- 

 ton Hollow. From the time Nicholson was absent, his traveling on horse- 

 back, and the route he must have come to Kingston (as he could not have 

 crossed the mountains west of Kingston), all seem to indicate that he bought 

 his drove somewhere along or near the line now traversed by the Erie Rail- 

 road. The Wallkill Valley runs southwest from Kingston (16 miles above 

 here), and passes through Ulster and Orange counties, and this would be the 

 natural route in leading stock from that section, or even further west, to get 

 to Washington Hollow. The dam of Mambrino Chief must have been a well 

 bred mare to have produced three such horses as Ooliah, Mdmbrino Chief and 

 the Cox Horse. This Cox Horse was as fast as either of the others. He was 

 sold from here to Geo. Johnson, of New York, passed through the hands of 

 Jas. Irving, and was owned for some time by A. Varian. He was a " whirl- 

 wind" to a sleigh, and on the roads out of New York he was the recognized 



"boss of the road," hitched in that way. 



Geo. F. Stevens. 



It will be borne in mind that Kingston is in Ulster county, the next 

 county west of Duchess, and that the mare came from the west of 

 Kingston, and perhaps not over sixty miles from that point. But 

 even granting that she came twice or three times that distance, there 

 is nothing in all the facts we have to show, or even suggest, that she 



