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well in New Orleans and that Major Dubois was the purchaser or one of the 

 purchasers ; thereby proving that the horse was Pilot. 



Mr. Andrews Pellett of Norwich, New York, who was referred to by 

 Mason Wescott as an old and successful horseman, and who is a man of 

 prominence and wealth in that place, wrote in reply to questions concerning 

 the horse Rockwell had at Norwich, as above stated, under date of Decem- 

 ber i3th, 1887, as follows : 



" Q. Was he a good-looking horse ? A. Yes. 



" Q. Had he any white ? A. No ; don't think he had. 



" Q. Was he a coarse horse ? A. Sort of blocky built, not coarse and 

 not fine. 



" Q. Were his mane and tail heavy ? A. I think they were. 



"Q. Was his tail docked? If so, how long or short? A. Could 

 not say ; his tail hung down to his gambrel. I was only a boy when I saw 

 this horse ; could not have been over sixteen or seventeen years of age. 

 Saw him pace ; could pace very fast. They said he came from Canada. I 

 thought he looked more like a Black Hawk or a Morgan. 



(Signed) A. PELLETT." 



Under date of March i2th, 1888, Mr. John Moore wrote us the 

 following concerning Pilot ; " When Mr. Rockwell brought this black 

 horse to Norwich he led him behind his peddling wagon, and when he 

 raced him he rode him. He was a strong-headed horse, and he had pul- 

 leys attached to his saddle. I remember this, for it was the first I ever 

 saw. He was a wonderful going horse. Rockwell showed him across 

 the flats and all the horsemen said they never saw anything like it, and I 

 shall never forget it. Rockwell did not live there then ; he came there about 

 ten years after. It was some time, either in 1857 or 1863, that he told me 

 the name. He said : 'John, do you remember the black horse I bought 

 here, the pacer'? I said I did. 'Well, that is the horse they call Pilot. I 

 sold him in New Orleans. I have seen him, and that is the horse'. He 

 was always talking about him, telling about the races that he won with him. 

 He said when he bought him he was so wicked that you could not go into 

 the stable to lead him out ; he said it took him a long time to break him. I 

 do not think he ever drove him". 



In another letter, dated April i3th, 1888, Mr. Moore wrote the follow- 

 ing description of Pilot : " He was not a coal black, rather a faded black, 

 what you would call a dirty black or a dark brown when he came to Nor- 

 wich ; it was warm weather. He did not look like a stallion ; he had a 

 plain, straight neck; you would take him for a gelding. When he was 

 pacing fast he did not have that high knee-action that the French horses 

 have ; more like Pocahontas' gait". 



In January, 1889, at Montgomery, Alabama, we had an interview with 

 Mr. C. W. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 

 1815, and there educated. In October, 1834, he removed to Louisville, 

 Kentucky, where he was for several years clerk in a store, and was afterwards 



