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Denton (198), owned by Mr. Orr. Both these cows had full pedi- 

 grees, and left several good descendants. The writer purchased 

 Harriet in the year 1834, then 14 years old, and unfortunately, past 

 breeding. She was a fine cow, mostly white in color. 



In 1823 Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, of the British Navy (Massachu- 

 setts born), sent out to the Massachusetts Agricultural Society the 

 bull Admiral (1608), and cow Annabella, by Major (398), from the 

 herd of Mr. Wetherell. Both animals left many descendants. 



In 1823 Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer, of Albany, N. Y. through 

 CoK Skinner, as we understood imported from the herd of Mr. 

 Champion, the bull Washington (1566), and the cows Pansy, by 

 Blaize (76), and Conquest. The latter of these cows never bred, but 

 Pansy had several descendants by Washington, whose produce have 

 since been bred and distributed into many States of the Union. 



In the year 1822, and during some years afterwards, the late Mr. 

 Charles Henry Hall, a merchant of New York, who had previously 

 lived and done business in different countries of Europe, imported 

 several Short-horns, selected from some of the best herds in England, 

 and among them the cow Princess, by Lancaster (360), bred in 1816, 

 by Robert Colling. Mr. Hall resided on a small farm at Harlem, 

 then a village, just out of New York city, on Manhattan Island. He 

 kept and bred a few of his Short-horns there, but the larger portion 

 of them were taken to his farm in Greenbush, near Albany, where 

 they were for several years kept and bred. This gentleman was not 

 particularly mindful of keeping the pedigrees of his stock, although 

 purely bred, and through this inattention much of the correct lineage 

 of his herd was lost. We knew Mr. Hall personally for some years 

 while breeding his cattle, and after he had disposed of his herds. In 

 answer to our inquiries of their blood relations, his answers were only 

 that "they were all purely bred," but, preserving few memoranda of 

 their breeding, he could not give particulars. Some of them the 

 Princess family, for instance have been registered correctly in the 

 American Herd Book ; others as only tracing to his imported cows 

 and bulls. This much, however, is certain : Mr. Hall assured us at 

 different times that he had his animals selected with great care in 

 England, and he paid liberal prices for them. We saw many of their 

 descendants between the years 1833 and 1840, and they had every 

 appearance of well-bred Short-horns, with high milking qualities. 



During the above years of Mr. Hall's importations, several gentle- 

 men of New York, chiefly through his influence, imported some 

 valuable Short-horns, selected as were Mr. Hall's, chiefly, as we 



