APPENDIX 899 



NELLY IRWIX 2:25, and winner of 38 races, b. m.; foaled 1866; bred by Albert Boyce, 

 Greene, X . Y.; got by Middletown, son of Hambletonian : dam said to be by Cooper's Bay 

 Abdallah; and 2d dam by Seely's American Star. Trotted 1874-82. 



NELLY K. 2:29, and winner of 10 races, bl. in., 15)4 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled Sept. 3, 

 J 873; got by Ringgold, thought to be thoroughbred: dam bay with white face and 

 white hind feet. Both sire and dam were bought by Mr. Kelley, spring, 1873, of a Mr. 

 Wendle, then of Alton, 111., who said he brought them from Virginia. The sire was then 

 20 years old or more, and both were able to trot a three-minute gait. The sire ap- 

 peared like a thoroughbred; was chestnut and very stylish. Mr. Kelley bred 12 foals 

 from this horse, all good animals. Wendle went to Pennsylvania and was lost sight of. 

 Owned by Col. Paul Walters, Irwin, 111. Trotted 1877-80. 



NELLY ROSE 2:30, and winner of II races, b. m. ; foaled spring of 1872; bred by Sheriff 

 Gordon, South Amboy, X. J.; got by Henry B. Patchen, son of George M. Patchen: dam 

 roan, brought from Xew York, said to be by Ethan Allen, son of Black Hawk. Trotted 

 1877-74. 



NELLY WALTON 2: 26)2, and winner of 1 2 races, b. m. with star, hind ankles white, 15% 

 hands; foaled June, 1867; bred by J. M. Littlefield, Abbott, Me.; got by Jules Jurgensen, 

 son of General Knox : dam chestnut with white face and four white legs, said to be by 

 Defiance, son of Pacing Defiance. Trotted 1873-75. 



NETTY 2:18, and winner of 14 races, b. m. with star, i$% hands; foaled 1866; bred by 

 F. O. Matthiessen, Jersey City, X. J. ; got by Hambletonian, son of Abdallah : dam Violet, 

 sorrel, nearly 16 hands, bought by F. O. Matthiessen of Thos. Minford, of Skiddy, Min- 

 ford & Co., Xew York, who writes that she was purchased for him, he does not know of 

 whom, by R. C. Layton, and said to be by Seely's American Star. Trotted 1873-78. 



NEW BERLIN GIRL 2:291-0 (trial 2:18), and winner of 10 races, ch. m. with small star 

 and a little white on one hind foot, 875 pounds; foaled 1864; bred by Parkman Chapman, 

 Baraboo, Wis. ; got by Gray Eagle, son of Mountain Eagle : dam Xellie Wai worth, bay, 

 stripe in face with two or three white legs, bought in Walworth county, Wis., by a Mr. 

 Hickox, who sold her to Mr. Wells, Portage City, and he to Mr. Chapman. Passed to D. 

 C. Remington, Mauston, Wis.; L. Dearborn, Janesville, Wis.; Charles Langworthy, New 

 York city; J. N. Briggs, White Plains, X. Y.; C. H. Read, Xew York city; Dave Muckle, 

 Cleveland, O. Trotted 1870-75. 



NEW YORK 2:32)2, and winner of 22 races, b. g.; foaled 1846. Owned at San Francisco, 

 Cal., by T. K. Battelle of Xew York, then correspondent at San Francisco of the 

 " Spirit of the Times ", who purchased him, summer of 1851, at Sacramento, where he was 

 known as the Miller Colt, and had been used in a stage, and also had won some races. 

 Geo. Bement, Oakland, Cal., who furnishes the above, writes : " He was a thoroughbred in 

 appearance and action, and very spirited; ran away once or twice ". Trotted 1852-58. 



NICK WHIFFLES 2 : 36>o', and winner of 21 races, b. g. Trotted in Pennsylvania and New 



Jersey, 1860-72. 

 NIGGER BABY 2 12714 (2 : 251.2' to pole), and winner of 12 races, bl. g. with small star and 



one hind foot white, 14 hands, 750 pounds; foaled about 1868; bred by Merrill Jones, 



Tunbridge, Vt.; got by Yankee Bill, son of McAllister's Young Draco, by Draco : dam said 



to be by Drew Horse. Trotted 1875-80. 



NONESUCH 2 :25>, and winner of 1 1 races, ch. m.; foaled 1862; bred by W. G. Baldwin, 

 Ticonderoga, N. Y.; got by Daniel Lambert, son of Ethan Allen: dam Jenny, black, bred 

 by C. Morgan, Moriah, N. Y., got by Bigelow Horse, son of Black Hawk. Trotted 1869-73. 



NUTWOOD 2:i8%,ch.h., 15% hands, 1160 pounds; foaled May i, 1870; bred by A. J. 

 Alexander, Spring Station, Ivy. ; got by Belmont, son of Alexander's Abdallah : dam Miss 

 Russell, gray (dam of Maud S. 2 : 13)0), bred by R. A. Alexander, Spring Station, Ky., got 

 by Pilot Jr., son of Pilot; 2d dam Sally Russell, chestnut, thoroughbred, bred by Capt. J. 



