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further that this Traveler was Lloyd's Traveler, one of the best bred 

 and most renowned sons of the very famous horse, Morton's imported 

 Traveler. And we may be morally certain that it was Col. Lloyd's 

 Traveler, also, that was the sire of De Lancey's famous saddle horse. 

 True, Lloyd's Traveler was not imported, from abroad as Mr. Norton 

 says the sire of True Briton was, and it is doubtful if he was ever 

 owned in New Jersey. But it would be strange if Mr. Norton's in- 

 formation on these subjects should all prove perfectly and entirely 

 accurate. Probably no mistake in'pedigrees is so common as confusing 

 son and sire. Llyod's Traveler, though not imported, was by a sire and 

 from a dam both imported ; and Lloyd's Traveler may have been 

 kept in New Jersey, as John Morgan says the reputed sire of True 

 Briton was "said to have been". 



It is not, perhaps, quite so certain which one of De Lancey's 

 very famous, imported mares was the dam of True Briton ; and still 

 if we accept the words of the advertisement, "De Lancey's imported 

 racer", in their fullest extent, that is, as designating a mare that ran in 

 races, Betty Leedes, the mare that is known to have been bred once 

 to Traveler, would appear to be the mare meant. For it is in 

 evidence that she ran in races, but, not so far as we know, that any 

 other of De Lancey's imported mares did. 



Fair Rachael, Mr. De Lancey says in these advertisements, was 

 sixteen years old in 1775, therefore was foaled in 1759, and, we must 

 conclude, was not, as American authorities state, the mare of same 

 name foaled in England, 1753, and that ran there with marked suc- 

 cess. De Lancey makes no claim that this mare ran, and it no- 

 where appears that she did ; he seems to have used her solely 

 for breeding. The same is true of the Cub Mare and the other 

 imported mares owned by De Lancey. But mention is made of 

 Captain James De Lancey's mare Betty Leeds being defeated in 1767 

 by old England. When or where De Lancey purchased this mare it 

 does not, as yet, appear. He may have imported her, or he may 

 have purchased her of Mr. Lloyd, or some other party, and she may 

 have been in foal, when he bought her, by Lloyd's Traveler, or had a 

 colt by her side by this horse. He may have purchased her with 

 one or two colts by Traveler, and then bred her back to Traveler, in 

 1773, because of the great excellence of one or both of these colts. 

 All of this is fairly probable, but what we know is that she appeared 

 as his mare, in 1767* i n a race with old England ; and was advertised 

 by him for sale with a yearling filly of hers by Traveler, in 1775. 



We are thus enabled to give, with confidence as to the sire 

 and reasonable probability as to the dam (admitting the possibility 



