NOTED MAINE HORSES. 61 
ment given by the public in general, that the Bridgham 
horse was ‘‘a Messenger,” we are inclined to the absence 
of proof, to receive with considerable allowance. We 
regard the fact that he was called Young Indian Chief as 
significant. The gray stallion Indian Chief, brought to 
Maine from Canada, was a prominent stock horse in 1841 © 
and °42, and it is possible that the Bridgham horse, or 
Young Indian Chief, was got by him and out of a Mes- 
senger dam. 
Bridgham sold the horse to America Farrar, of Buck- 
field; finally repurchased him and kept him four years, 
after which he was owned by different parties; viz; Are- « 
tus Farrar, of Buckfield; Essec Fuller, of Turner; Nat. 
Mabury and others. He was well known in this vicinity 
as the horse that bit Essec Fuller, and will pass into 
history as the sire of the dam of Hopeful. 
