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In the year 1810 Capt. William Smith, of Fayette county, Ky., 

 purchased of the before mentioned Mr. Miller, of Virginia, and 

 brought to Kentucky a bull called Buzzard, 304 (3254). He was 

 coarser, larger, and taller than Pluto, but not so heavy. He was 

 bred in different herds many years, and also used by the Society of 

 Shakers at Pleasant Hill, Mercer county, Ky., in 1821, and for some 

 years afterwards. 



In the year 1811 the bull Shaker (2193 A. H. B.) was bought of 

 Mr. Miller aforesaid, and used some years both by the Pleasant Hill, 

 Ky., and Union Village, Ohio, Societies of Shakers. They after- 

 wards sold him to Messrs. Welton and Hutchcraft, of Kentucky. 

 He was of the " Milk " or Short-horn breed. This account we have 

 from Messrs. Micajah Burnett, of the Pleasant Hill, and Peter Boyd, 

 of the Union Village Societies, and although they each differ in some 

 non-essential items, the identity of the bull is fully recognized. 



These four bulls, viz. : Mars, Pluto, Buzzard, and Shaker, appear 

 to have been purely bred from the Gough and Miller importations 

 previous to the year 1810. From these bulls, but not on equally pure 

 bred cows of those importations, descended many animals whose 

 pedigrees have been recognized and recorded as Short-horns in the 

 earlier volumes of the English Herd Book, and of consequence, since 

 in the American Herd Book, as the latter is founded on the English 

 publication, as standard authority, in all matters of Short-horn gene- 

 alogy. 



During the years above mentioned several other bulls from the 

 Gough and Miller Virginia stock were brought into Kentucky and 

 Ohio some with names and some without names, other than those 

 of their owners as "Inskip's bull," "Peeple'sbull" (Mars, probably), 

 " Witherspoon's bull," "Bluff," and others. 



Some pedigrees in the Herd Books run back into several of those 

 bulls, which, as m&u^z^ptire-bred crosses have since been made upon 

 their descendants, and been recorded in the English Herd Book, 

 must be classed in the family of Short-horns. 



From the above accounts it is understood where and how the 

 " Patton stock " originated. There can be no doubt that some of 

 the original importations of Gough and Miller were well-bred cattle 

 of the Short-horn or Teeswater breed (which were identical in origi- 

 nal blood), but without pedigrees ; also that others of them may have 

 been of the Holderness variety coarser and less improved of the 

 same race. In the various accounts which we have gathered from 

 different quarters in Ohio and Kentucky, some of them were rough 



