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NOTED MAINE HORSES. 



roadster, got by Quicksilver. Sylvester sold him, when 

 eight years old, to Mr. Leavitt, of North Turner Bridge, 

 for $100. Mr. Leavitt sold him, when eighteen years old, 

 to Frank Howard, of Leeds, for $140, and he took him to 

 Bridgewater, Mass. He was a great roadster. 



FAEMEE'S MESSENGEE. 

 Dapple gray stallion, with very heavy black mane and 

 tail, 17 hands high, and weighed 1800 pounds, foaled in 

 1845, bred by C. P. Ford, East Livermore, Me., got by 

 Hunton Horse. Dam, a large sorrel mare, with white in 

 JEace, of Morgan descent. Ford sold him in March, 1852, 

 to H. W. Humphrey, of Turner, and ho kept him until he 

 died, in Nov., 1853. He was a great roadster, and was a 

 fine tjrpe of the Messenger stock. 



EOYAL OAK. 



Blood bay stallion, with black points, 15J- hands high, 

 foaled about 1838, bred by Jabez Merrill, of Turner, Me., 

 got by Quimby Messenger. Dam, a mare of Morgan de- 

 scent. Merrill sold him, when about six years old, to 

 Geo. M. Eobinson, of Augusta. Mr. Eobinson afterwards 

 sold him to America Farrar, of Buckfield, and he to 

 Charles Proctor, of Corinna. He died in Dover, N. H., 

 in June, 1852. 



PI8HON HOESE. 

 Gray stallion, 15^^ hands high, foaled in 1845, bred by 

 Tufton Simpson, of Winslow, Me., got by the Stone 

 Horse, dam said to' be by Quicksilver. He passed into 

 the hands of Mr. Pishon, of Pishon's Ferry, nine miles 

 above Waterville, while young, and became known as the 

 Pishon Horse. He was said to be very fast, and after be- 



