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" The following account of the pedigree of the dam of Hubback 

 was given to the author (George Coates) by the undernamed person: 

 ** I remember the cow which my father bred, that was the dam of 

 Hubback ; there was no idea then that she had any mixed or Kyloe 

 blood in her. Much has been lately said, that she was descended 

 from a Kyloe ; but I have no reason to beheve, nor do I believe, that 

 she had any mixture of Kyloe blood in her. 



John Hunter. 



Hurworth, near Darlington, July 6th, 1822." 



George Baker, Esq., of Elemore, in a letter to the Farmer's Jour- 

 nal, 1821, says, "Attempts have been made, by hearsay evidence 

 and otherwise, to question the blood of Hubback. I send you his 

 pedigree. I have the authority of Mr. Charles Colling to say, he 

 always considered him a thorough-bred short-horned hull. Mr. John 

 Hunter, of Hurworth, who sold his dam, with Hubback at her foot, 

 to Mr. Basnett, of Darlington, says, his father bought her grandam 

 of Mr. Stephenson, of Ketton, and that she was a pure bred short- 

 horn. Mr. Alexander Hall, of Sheraton Hill Top, who lived in that 

 neighborhood, and i-emembei'S her and the calf 2)erfectly well, says, she 

 was a beautiful color and handler, and when she got on to good land 

 near Darlington, she got so fat she would not breed again. Hub- 

 back, he says, was got by Mr. Snowdon's bull, (a son of Mr. Rob- 

 son's bull, of Dinsdale, who was bred by old Mr. Waistell, of Bur- 

 don, a very noted breeder, and got by Mr James Masterman's bull, 

 of Coathani, near Darlington), and was a true bred short horn. The 

 above gentleman will attest the same if necessary." 



Mr. Christopher Foss, in a letter to John Hutchinson, Esq., dated 

 Nov. 30th, 1821, says, " According to your request, I called, on the 

 22d instant, on John Hunter, bricklayer, of Hurworth, who informed 

 me that his father was a tenant under Madam Bland. About fifty 

 years ago [1*771], as near as he could recollect, he left off farming, 

 and came to Hurworth, having sold off all his cattle, except one 

 beautiful little short-horned cow, which he brought along with him. 

 She went ever after in the lanes, he having no land. On calving to 

 a bull belonging to Mr. George Snowdon, of Hurworth, a bull calf, 

 she and her calf were taken to Darlington, and sold to a Quaker, 

 wlio, the same day, resold her and her calf to a Mr. Basnett, timber 

 merchant." 



Mr. Robert Waistell, of Darlington, son of Mr. Waistell, of Alihill, 

 owner with R. Colling of Hubback, says that " The farms of Barmp- 

 ton and Alihill join each other. Robert Colling came to reside at 

 Barmpton in 1*783, having taken Barmpton farm in the spring of that 

 year. He had previously resided at Hurworth. At that time Mr. 

 Wm. Fawcett owned Hubback, and lived at Haughton Hill, where 

 Hubback was kept and let to cows at one shilling a cow. Mr. Faw- 

 cett bought Hubback when a calf of Mr. Basnett. My father pro- 



