THE QUALITIES OF PEDIGREES. 25$ 



Mohawk (4492), by Tecumseh (5409), out of Mrs. Motte, both of 

 Ky.'imp. 1817. 



Mohican (4493), ending in Buzzard (3253). 



Priam (4762), ending in Buzzard (3253). 



Ranter (4781), ending in the Teeswater cow. 



Rufus (5034), ending in the Teeswater cow 



Sambo (5073), ending in Buzzard (3253). 



Sir Henry (5158), ending in the Durham cow, Ky. imp. 1817. 



Superior (5359), ending in same as Kleber (4165). 



Andrew (5755), ending in Durham cow, Ky. imp. 1817. 



Billy Button (5795), ending in Buzzard (3253). 



Goldbud (6042), ending in Teeswater cow, Ky. imp. 1817. 



Indian Chief (6090), ending in Durham cow, Ky. imp. 1817 



Sultan .(6552), ending in Buzzard (3253). 



Winfield (6687), ending in Teeswater cow. 



Wonder (6689), ending in Teeswater cow. 



There are carpers knowing little of the subject, as we infer after 

 reading some of their criticisms, who profess to detect sundry grade 

 or spurious pedigrees in the American volumes, (a few cases of which 

 may possibly be so,) and besides them, condemn in one sweeping 

 clause the pedigrees of the descendants of the "Patton stock," and 

 also those of the Kentucky importation of 1817, together with sundry 

 others, of which they know quite as little as they do of them. 



Let us look somewhat into these animals and their asserted qual- 

 ities. The true blood of the Patton stock, we admit, is somewhat 

 cloudy in its origin. But we give the evidence of many of the 

 venerable leading breeders of past days, some of whom years 

 ago passed away, while others are still living. Among the de- 

 ceased were Col. Lewis Sanders, the importer of the 1817 stock; the 

 brothers Dr. Elisha and Capt. Benjamin Warfield, Capt. John Cun- 

 ningham, Mr. Walter Dun, Dr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, together 

 with Gov. Allen Trimble and Mr. George Renick, of Ohio. There 

 were others, also deceased, not now recollected. To these we add the 

 names of the venerables Robert W. Scott, Samuel D. Martin, Jere- 

 miah Duncan, Rev. John Allen Gano, Rev. R. T. Dillard, B. W. 

 and B. T. Dudley, Issacher Fisher, Micajah Burnett, of the United 

 Society of Shakers at Pleasant Hill, together with Ithamer Johnson 

 and Peter Boyd, of the Society of Shakers, Union Village, Ohio, still 

 living. Several of the above named gentlemen, now dead, we per- 

 sonally knew years ago; some of the others yet alive we are well 

 acquainted with, and they who knew the animals, without difference 



