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October I, 1806. He had four brothers, named James, Isaac, Stephen 

 and Shadrack, all of whom have been dead for years. He (Wingate) 

 lived at home with his parents several years after he was of age. In 

 1832 his father, Ezekiel Twombly, traded an eight-year-old mare with 

 Benjamin Kelly, who then kept a hotel in Durham, for a large black 

 mare, agreeing to give Kelly a load of hay in case the black mare, 

 which Mr. Kelly stated had been bred to Sherman Morgan, should 

 prove in foal. 



"This mare he describes as being a large, handsome animal, with 

 wide nostrils, good-sized head and ears (the latter well set and 'always 

 carried upright, as straight as a stick'), neck of good length and well 

 cut up under the jowls, strong back, good loin, hips of good width, 

 rather straight and very smoothly turned, handsome croup and good 

 legs, which were clean, flat and free from hair. She was well shaped, 

 but not what would be called snug-built. Her color was black, with 

 a white stripe in her face about the width of three fingers, extending 

 from the middle of her forehead to her nose. This stripe was the only 

 white about her excepting a few hairs growing in places where she had 

 been galled by the harness. She had no white feet, and there were 

 no white hairs mixed through her coat. After shedding her coat 

 in the spring she was as black as jet one of the blackest he ever saw. 



" She stood about sixteen hands in height, weighed eleven hun- 

 dred pounds, was as square a trotter as ever wore harness, never 

 paced a step while he knew her, and was very fast for those times. 

 Before trading with Mr. Twornbly, Kelly drove the mare a measured 

 mile on the turnpike in three minutes to a gig when carrying Black 

 Hawk. She was a mare of good courage, great endurance and ex- 

 cellent wind. He once drove her ten miles coming home from 

 muster, over very muddy roads, with five in a heavy wagon. The 

 distance was traveled in a very short time, but the mare's courage 

 was as good the last rod as when she started. In traveling she car- 

 ried her head fairly well up, or a little higher than her body ; was 

 by no means a low-headed animal. 



" Although a free driver, needing no whip, she was a very kind- 

 dispositioned animal, and safe for any one to use on the road. Mrs. 

 Twombly frequently drove her alone after that lady was eighty years 

 old. Mr. Kelly, from whom his father had the mare, claimed he got 

 her of a pedlar, who represented that he brought her from Nova 

 Scotia, and stated that her dam was imported. She was about eight 

 years old when Mr. Twombly got her. He always said she was the 

 best animal he ever drove. So good was her wind that after the most 



