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pure-bred cattle to reach our shores. The port of Plymouth, from 

 which the early colonists and the Mayflower sailed, is on the 

 south shore of Devon, and the vessel CJiarity which sailed in 

 1623 is thought to have had Devon cattle on board. Devons were 

 imported in 1800 to Massachusetts, and in 1805 General Eaton 

 took some to Otsego County, New York. In 18 17 the first pure- 

 bred registered Devons brought to the United States came over 

 in the brig Margaretta and were landed at Baltimore. These were 



Fig. 143. Nettle Top 12989, grand champion Devon cow at the Lewis and 

 Clark Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 1905. Exhibited by L.V. McWhorter 

 & Son, North Yakima, Washington. Photograph by the author 



a present from Mr. Coke (later Earl of Leicester), of Holkham, 

 England, to Robert Patterson of Baltimore, and consisted of six 

 two-year-old heifers and a bull. These became foundation 

 animals in the American Devon Record. Other importations 

 were later made by the Patterson family, and most of the early 

 American Devons are descended from the stock of this family. 

 From 1825 to 1850 and later many Devons were imported into 

 the Atlantic coast states and into Canada, and the breed became 

 very well known. 



