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Lebanon, New Jersey, who sold her to Colonel 

 Goode, of Virginia. 



" Slamerkin was the dam of the celebrated 

 running horses Bucephalus, gotten by old Granby, 

 and Honest John, gotten by the imported horse 

 old Messenger. She was the grandam of the 

 celebrated running horses PoUydore, Grasshopper, 

 Esopus, Cockfighter, and several good runners; 

 and the ancestor of Kentucky Whip, Flag of 

 Truce, Fearnought, Seagull, Prizefighter, Hon- 

 esty, Tormentor, Hornet, Maria, Eclipse, Lurcher, 

 Scipio, Antelope, Brilliant, Morgan Rattler, and 

 many other good racers. 



" Slamerkin was gotten by the celebrated horse, 

 Old Wildair, who was afterwards exported to Eng- 

 land, and covered at 40 guineas a mare, out of 

 the celebrated Cub mare, and was full sister to the 

 famous old Bashaw. 



"Jno. Manners." 



Mr. Manners then furnished the following 

 delightful story of the mare from a member of 

 the Goode family : — 



"About 1780, a year or two sooner or later, 

 a Mr. Thomas Goode of Chesterfield, Virginia, 

 than whom never was man more devoted to good 



