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attaching to the progeny of this horse, in the firsthand 

 second generations, makes it of the utmost import- 

 ance that breeders should have exact and reliable 

 information as to the blood he possessed. Fortunately, 

 in our travels through Orange, Ulster, and Columbia 

 Counties, in New York, and through a greater part 

 of New Jersey ; we think we shall be able, clearly 

 and unmistakably, to give a correct and reliable 

 pedigree and history of the horse^ American Star ; and 

 supply every link in the chain from the day he was 

 foaled, the property of Henry II. Beriy, Esq., of 

 Pompton Plains, Morris County, New Jersey, in 

 June, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, until he 

 died, the property of Theodore Dusenberry, of Goshen, 

 in February, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Henry 

 H. Berry sought this horse vvhile owned by Edmond 

 Seeley and Hiram Smith, and recognized him at once 

 as the same horse owned and raised by him till he was 

 seven years of age. This Mr. Berry told us ; which, 

 we claim, connects the last link with the first; and we 

 simply mention this because Uncle Edmond did not 



