422 MAM BRING CHIEF. 



came from any other rog-ioii than the interior of the State of Now 

 York. 



Before going- into other evidences which to my mind have an im- 

 portant bearing on the subject, I will present a statement of Mr. Am- 

 brose Stevens, of Batavia, New York, a gentleman whom I had never 

 met and did not know at the time I received the statement, except 

 as he was known to the public. This statement is the substance of two 

 letters by him, sent me after seeing the suggestion I made in regard 

 to this subject, in the National Live-Stock Journal, to the effect 

 that this mare was a Messenger Duroc. I have put the two letters 

 together, and give them substantially as I received them, the italics 

 being my own: 



I notice your remark in regard to the dam of Mambrino Cliief being a 

 daughter of Messenger Duroc, he by Duroc, dam Vincenta by imp. Messen- 

 ger. Allow me to tell you what I know of Messenger Duroc. In 1822 I saw 

 him run at Oaks, in the town of Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y., three miles, 

 and win. He was owned by Samuel Hayt (pronounced Ho}'!). I was a visitor 

 at Major Whitemore's, near Oaks, and the horse was there and remained till 

 September, and was again brought back there in October, 1822. He was 

 wintered at Maj. Whitemore's in 1822 — 23. I knew the horse perfectly well 

 then. It is stated in the printed account of him, that he was foaled in 1820, 

 but he was foaled in 1818, and was four years old in 1822. I know the fact 

 that Vincent's certificate was changed as to date after I parted with the horse. 

 In 1829, Mr. Ulysses Stage, of the town of Stafibrd, Genesee county, N. Y., 

 hought the horse of Hayt, and brought him to Genesee county, N. Y., and 

 stood him in that 'year in Statford. In the spring of 1880, mj' brother and 

 myself bought him of Robt. F. Stage, the brother and administrator of 

 TJlysses Stage, who was badly bitten by Messenger Duroc in the autumn of 

 1829, and died in consequence of it- 

 After the purchase by me and mj^ brother, I made inquiry of Hayt and 

 "Whitemore about the history of the horse from 1822 to 1829. I knew the 

 horse instantly in 1829, when I saw him at Stage's tavern, where he stood in 

 1829. I sought out Hayt, whom I knew in 1822, and in 1881 obtained his 

 certificate as to the horse and his history (this latter a verbal statement, but 

 which I reduced to writing at the time). He informed me that in 1824 he 

 took the horse to Duchess county, and made a season there. He made four 

 seasons in Duchess and Ulster counties. In three of those years, in the 

 autumn, he brought him to Oneida and Seneca counties, N. Y. (in the last of 

 which Hayt lived), and made fall seasons with him, and returned him to the 

 East in the following spring. In 1828 he brought him home in the fall, and 

 in the winter of 1828—29, sold \\\m to U. Stage. In 1829 Stage stood him in 

 Statlord. In 1880 my brother and I stood him at Batavia, Genesee county. 



In the spring of 1881 I bought my brother's interest and stood him at Bata- 

 via;- in 1832 at McFarland's, in Niagara, Canada, at the mouth of the Niag- 

 ara river ; in 1833, 1834 and 1835 at East Hamburg, Erie county, N. Y., 



