THE MORGAN HORSE 53 



Imported to Virginia by Henry Mitchell ; bred to imported Fear- 

 naught, to Silverlegs and Othello. 



Nancy Bywell, bay, foaled about 1/61, imported by Mr. Mitch- 

 ell of Maryland, owned by Col. Lloyd, got by Matchem, son of 

 Cade. She was a successful racer. Bred to imported Tanner and 

 Lloyd's Traveler. 



Queen Mab. The following information of this mare from 

 Skinner's "American Turf Register", volume 6, pages 207-8 is the 

 best we have of her : 



" PEDIGREES OF HORSES OF THE OLDEN TIMES. 



" DEAR SIR: In looking over some old papers of my father's 

 a few days since, I accidentally found the following pedigrees, which 

 may perhaps be of some use to the sporting world, as I do not find 

 either of them in your magazine. JOHN M. GARNET". 



" Old Spark was got by Aleppo, son of the Barley Arabian 

 (sire of Childers) ; his dam was full sister to Squire Bathurst's 

 Look-about-you ; she was got by the Bartlett Childers ; her dam by 

 old Spark ; her grandam by the Rutland Coneyskins, out of Sweet 

 Lips. 



" Queen Mab was got by Musgrove's Gray Arabian ; her dam by 

 the Hampton Court Childers ; her grandam by Gov. Harrison's 

 Arabian ; her great-grandam by the Chestnut Arabian ; her great- 

 great-grandam by Leedes ; her great-great-great-grandam was a bay 

 mare brought over by Mr. Marshall, and was the dam of Mr. Croft's 

 Grayhound. 



"The above pedigrees of old Spark and Queen Mab I have 

 now by me from under the hands of their breeders. 



May 20, 1758. BENJ. TASKER, JR." 



" Mille, the filly I sold Mr. Sprigg, was got by old Spark, and 

 her dam Queen Mab. BENJ. TASKER, JR." 



" Queen Mab had but two foals after she came to America. 

 The first was Pacolet, that Col. Tasker ran several times in Virginia ; 

 the second was Mille, which my father bought at six months old, 

 on the death of Queen Mab. Col. Tasker never was possessed of 

 any of the produce from Mille ; he had many from old Spark. 



RICHARD SPRIGG." 



The following advertisement appears in the "Maryland Gazette", 

 1761 : 



"To be sold at public auction, pursuant to the testament of the 

 Hon. Benj. Tasker, deceased, May 21, 1761, at Bellaire, near Queen 



