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perhaps, that would pace all day under the saddle, and others 

 that would both trot and pace, frequently changing from one 

 gait to the other. 



This breed of horses goes into history as the only one 

 founded on the results of a single importation and becoming in 

 demand for export within twenty years after the importation 

 of its founder. 



I still recollect descendants of this breed that were great 

 roadsters and tough as leather. I recall to mind two black 

 mares, both raised and owned in Kingston, Khode Island, — one 

 by George Allen and the other by Nathaniel Eeynolds — that 

 would go from Quidnessett, near Wickford, E. I., to Brighton, 

 Mass., about sixty miles, in a half day without stopping on the 

 the road for feeding. 



I once owned a sorrel gelding, a descendant of this breed, 

 that paced and would not trot at all, but would pace, if put to 

 it, I think nearly, or quite, one hundred miles in a day on a 

 good road. 



In conclusion of this scrap of history, allow me to state 

 that Daniel's Mary "forsook father and mother, brothers and 

 sisters," home, luxuries, society, and all the pleasures that 

 wealth and civilization could bestow, and followed her lover to 

 America, where they were married and became the founder of 

 a family by the name of Pearce in America (one member of 

 which has served the people of the United States one term as 

 its President), besides figuring largely in other prominent 

 American families by intermarriage. Mary was disinherited, 

 however, and when her father made his will she was " not in it." 



