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and Leonard Bedell, of Shoreham, Vei-mont, of Andrew Cook, 

 of Flushing, Long Island. Cock purchased all of the original 

 stock and part of the individual sheep sold to them, of the 

 importers. Their Spanish pedigree, the authenticity of which 



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was attested by a Consular certificate, (undoubtedly Mr. 

 Jarvis', but that fact is not now remembere^ showed them to 

 be Panlars.* They have been bred by John T. Rich, son of the 

 preceding, and his sons John T. and Virtulan Rich, on the old 



* Cock delivered this certified pedigree to Bedell. Letters of the late John T. Bich, 

 Esq., BOH of one of the purchasers, ano'^of the late Hon. S. H. Jennison, ex-Ooremor of 

 Vermont, were pablished in ISM, stating that they had seen this document ; and both 

 gentlemen remembered the ewes in the noclc certified to be of the ori^nal importation. 

 Gov. Jennison says he saw them often between 1834 and 1830. They were very old 

 and toothless. The Hon. Effingham Lawrence, who resided in the same town with 

 Cock, and who was himself a distinguished importer and breeder of Merinos, as well 

 as an old-school gentleman, highly eminent for social position and integritj^, wrote to 

 me in 1844: — "Andrew Cock * * was my near neighbor. We were intimate and 

 commenced laying the foundations of our Merino ilocks about the same time, I was 

 present when he purchased most of Iiis sheep, which was in 1811. He first purchased 

 two ewcB at $1,100 per head. They were very fine, and of the Escurial flock imported 

 by Kicfaard Crowninshield. His next purchase was 30 of the Paular breed at from $50 

 to $100 per head. He continued to purchase of the different importations until he run 

 them up to about eighty, always selecting them with great care. This was the 

 foundation of A. Coclrs flock, nor did he ever purchase any but pure blooded sheep 

 to my knowledge or belief. Andrew Cock was an attentive breeder ; saw well to his 

 bnsiness; and was of unimpeachable character. His certificate of the kind and 

 ^rity of blood I should implicitly rely on. 1 recollect of his selling sheep to Leonard 

 Bedell, of Vermont." Much other testimony sustaining the pedigree might be given. 



