APPENDIX 923 



TAKE NOTICE. 



Those who contracted to pay the subscriber, last fall or winter, are called upon in earnest 

 the last time in this way, to settle immediately both note and book, save cost, and oblige 

 their humble servant. SELAH NORTON. 



Ashfield, 1794. 



In the same paper, in the spring of 1795, is again advertised: "The full-blooded beau- 

 tiful bay horse, Traveler, at 15 and 24 shillings. One of his colts, estimated at $100, may be 

 seen at my stable as a sample for those gentlemen who wish to raise market horses. 



Ashfield. SELAH NORTON". 



SILVER TAIL 



The following advertisement of a horse of this name (and, we think, the horse referred 

 to on page 63) appears in the "Albany Gazette " of Albany, N. Y., 1786: 



SILVER TAIL. 



15% hands, full bred, brother to Belmont, owned by Mrs. Ringolds, by Tanner: dam by 

 Selim; g. d. by Danton's Gray Arabian Godolphin Arabian Imp. Partner Danton's 

 Witherington mare, 



Among advertisements of descendants of imported Wildair, referred to on page 58, are 

 the following : 



Young Wildair, black, fourteen and three-fourths hands, foaled 1773, by a son of im- 

 ported Wildair, at New Millford, Connecticut, in 1779. Rainbow, by Church's Wildair, 

 at Preston, Connecticut, in 1781. We tind also Hero, by Church's Wildair, at Colchester, 

 Connecticut, in 1789. And at Adams, Massachusetts, 1786, "the elegant horse Wild- 

 air, got by Lath : dam by Hooker's old Wildair, and is the most elegant and best horse 

 in New England." Roebuck, ' formerly called in New York, Livingston Horse," bay, fifteen 

 and a quarter hands, son of Lath: dam by Wildair; at Hardwick, Massachusetts, 1791 to 

 1800 inclusive, owned by Martin Kingsley and Lemuel Willis. Wildair, bay, fifteen and a 

 half hands, at Brookfield, Massachusetts, 1795. "In Leicester, Massachusetts, noted horse 

 Wild Deer [used for Wildair], bay, fifteen hands, foaled 1785, by W 7 ild Deer, son of imported 

 Wild Deer, and from full-blooded mare ", in 1794 and 1796. In " Poughkeepsie Journal", 

 New York, 1791, Bold Air, bay, seven-eighths blooded, highly spoken of. President, bay, 

 sixteen hands, by Bashaw, son of Wildair, at W T estfield, Connecticut, in 1795. Cumberland, 

 by Rainbow, son of Wildair, near Fishkill, New York, in 1791. Wildair, chestnut, fifteen 

 and one-half hands, foaled 1790, by Highflyer: dam by Wildair; at Norwich, Connecticut, in 

 1795, and at Leicester and Rutland, Massachusetts, in 1797 and '98. 



In 1 795 appears an advertisement of Figure, bred on Long Island, and got by imported 

 Figure, son of Wildair, after he returned to England. And a Young Wildair, bay, rising 

 fifteen hands, is advertised, 1800, at Keene, New Hampshire. 



And in Vermont the Wildair blood became quite prevalent, as is shown by the following 

 advertisements : 



In Jericho : " Wildare, the noted bright bay horse, fifteen and one-fourth hands high, 

 and everyway well proportioned; lately from southward. MARTIN CHITTENDEN". 



1795. At Newbury : " Hyder Alii, by Liberty : dam by Arabian, son of Wildair ". 



1796. AtHartland: " Hermet, by Liberty : dam by Bulrock; 2d dam by Wild Deer ". 

 At Randolph : " That full-blooded horse Herald, beautiful bay, good figure, handsome 



carriage, about fifteen hands, sired by the well-known Russell Horse, which was got by the 

 old imported Wild Air out of a full-blooded bay mare : Herald's dam by Liberty. 



JONATHAN DURKEE". 



At Royalton : " Fox by Bedford, by Wildair ". These from the " Windsor Journal ", and 

 from the "' Vermont Gazette " at Bennington, we have : 



1784. The Young Raven, four years old, of the Wildair breed. 



1789. At Bennington and Pownal : "Young Courier, five years old, sixteen hands, dark 

 brown, trots and canters; got by Count de Grasse, by Wildair: dam full-blooded". 



