XV 

 PILOT 



Very dark brown, nearly black, with mealy ring around the eyes and 

 mealy nose; no white marks; about fifteen hands; foaled 1823 ; bred by 

 Louis Dansereau, Contre Cceur, Province of Quebec ; sire unknown : dam 

 Jeanne d'Arc, black pacer, bred by Louis Dansereau, got by Voyageur that 

 was foaled the property of Pierre Fisette of Contre-Cceur, from a mare that he 

 traded for with a Yankee about 1811 (See Voyageur, Vol. II.) ; second dam a 

 black pacer, described by Louis Dansereau, in 1842, as " active, but not very 

 fleet", that Louis Dansereau traded for at Montreal about 1814 with a Yankee 

 teamster. Pilot was sold when eighteen months old to Andrew Chicuine of Yer- 

 cheres, who kept him about a year and sold to Joseph Dansereau of the same 

 place (a brother of Louis), who took him to Montreal in 1829, and kept him 

 there a number of weeks, when he was bought for one hundred and fifty dollars 

 by Elias Lee Rockwell of Stafford, Connecticut ; Rockwell took him to Stafford 

 in the fall of 1829, and sold a half interest to John Dean of that place. They kept 

 the horse there till the next August, selling also a part interest to M. S. P. 

 Dean, a brother of John. In August, 1830, Rockwell took the horse to Nor- 

 wich, New York, leading him behind his pedlar wagon, and thence to New 

 Orleans, pacing him in contests along the route. M. S. P. Dean also accom- 

 panied him to New Orleans, and they took with them a running horse that he 

 owned, called Sleepy John, and there, some time before June, 1831, they 

 sold Pilot to Major O. Dubois for one thousand dollars, taking their pay in 

 sugar. 



As early as 1832, perhaps in the fall of 1831, Pilot was bought for one 

 thousand dollars by Messrs. Heinsohn & Poe of Louisville, Kentucky, and 

 was brought from New Orleans to that city, and there and in that vicinity 

 was kept till his death. Mr. D. Heinsohn owned Pilot the larger part of his 

 life, but sold him, probably about 1850, for three hundred dollars, to Robert 

 Bell of Louisville, who sent the horse to his farm near Henderson, Kentucky, 

 where he dropped dead about 1853. 



The history of Pilot is a striking and dramatic story. Born upon the 

 banks of the magnificent St. Lawrence, he drew from his ancestors, and took 

 in from the pure airs and green pastures of Canada, a constitution full of 

 the vigor of the North. Taken early to Montreal, he fell into the possession 

 of the ubiquitous Yankee. His marvelous power and speed were now ap- 



