THE HORSE STOCK 



OF OHIO AND THE WEST. 



In the early settlement of tlie 01iio,whicli was commenced near 

 the close of the last century and in the beginning of the 

 present, the orighial horse-stock, like the peo])le themselves, 

 came from divers quarters — by far the larger portion from 

 Yirginia and Pennsylvania, while man}'^ of the settlers of the 

 northern counties, known as the ^ Connecticut Western Reserve," 

 were from Connecticut and Massachusetts, and the New Eng- 

 land States, and also from ISTew York. 



The settlement of Ohio forms a distinct epoch in the history 

 of American emigration, as previously had done the settlement 

 of the " Holland Purchase " and " Genesee Country " in New 

 York, by emigrants from the north of New England. Tlie 

 settlement of Ohio was the second great wave of Eastern emi- 

 gration towards the West, as that had been the first, and then 

 there was a comparative lull until the tide set for Michigan, 

 about the period of 1827. 



Thus in writing the history of the horse in the West, we 

 must first name the origin of the men and the time of their 

 most rapid immigration, in order to get a correct clue to their 

 inseparable and most useful companion — the Horse. From 

 1815 to 1820 was the greatest tide of the New England immi- 

 gration, while that from Pennsylvania and Yirginia to Central 

 and Northern Ohio, was some years earlier, by whicli means 

 the type of the original horse stock of the State was more 



